Re: Ghost e-mail

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From: undermind (ccdimail-web_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:30:36 -0700

The best solution that I have seen yet is SBC Global's Address Guard.
This allows you to create up to 100 'front' email addresses that feed
into your real email address. You use the alias addresses with all
public communications. When the spammers get ahold of an alias and you
start getting alot of spam then you just 'prune' the alias from the tree
of alias' that you have generated and voila, spam from that alias stops!
It's a thing of beauty. You can even create alias' for your close
associates and if you start getting spam from them then you know one of
them is guilty of selling your address.

> Right, Headers for Outlook are in the Options box. Thanks for
> reminding me.
>
> Fighting Spam is like trying to herd cats or get a direct answer
> from a politician.
>
> For my wife's account, which gets a lot of Spam I use the ISP
> filter and Norton Anti-Spam. It's basically just a redirect that
> puts all the Spam in a custom folder. So far it hasn't nicked any
> valid messages and I just have her purge it out every week or so.
>
> We used to add Block senders, but it just got to be too much
> effort. Eventually, we'll change her address but it's one of those
> situations where all her friends have the address and she's not
> inclined to change it.
>
> If you want to "Fight Spam" you can check into SpamCop.
> http://www.spamcop.net/
>
> "Tino" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CB9BC6B7-D247-40A2-9DF3-79030549D00B@microsoft.com...
>
>>OK... One by one.
>>
>>First ta to all of you for your help
>>
>>Kenny & David
>>
>>I am using Microsoft Outlook, so when I right click on the e-mail there is
>
> not such a thing as "properties" but there is "Options" which shows the
> "Heather" and so the path where is coming from what in the end is the same
> thing.
>
>>McCarty
>>
>>As you can read in my answer to Kenny and David I did get there and I've
>
> just discovered that they are e-mail addresses that are already in my junk
> mail filter. They are clever b***ards... As you said, I did subscribe an
> e-mail filter so they couldn't go through anymore so they've changed
> tactics. All are e-mails of the kind of "stringofletters@whatever.any" type
> and they are mostly hotmail and yahoo adresses.
>
>>And also you are dead right... I have several other addresses and no one
>
> spam cames through them thought it is starting from MSN, but their filter is
> stopping them so far. All the spam is coming from my first address that was
> the solo one for some years.
>
>>Any more advise before I start messing around with Mailwasher?
>>
>>I have the free version of Mailwasher v2.0 but I thought that with not
>
> sender and not subject Mailwasher wouldn't take it. I'll have a try...
>
>

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