Posted by Fi on March 26, 2002, at 7:04:28
In reply to ghost of hateful-mom commandeers computer, posted by trouble on March 25, 2002, at 12:23:14
I hate it too.
The standard advice is *dont reply* to these spam- all it does is verify that the email is a real one (they guess at millions of possibilities).
When I'm really fed up (usually with particularly filthy porn related messages), I email the webmaster if its a large recognisable ISP (eg yahoo) and tell them that one of their subscribers is probably breaking their regulations. But I dont know if the ISPs bother to act, and its really easy for the spammers to set up a new email elsewhere.
I suspect the sad fact is that a lot of people do use the internet to search for porn.
Another thing you can do is set up 'rules' in your email- I know someone who deletes anything with $ or sex or porn or millions in the subject! Wont catch them all, tho.
Is your email mentioned anywhere on a webpage? Does it need to be? You will get more spam if it is. Changing your ISP and getting a new email address will help.
Unfortunately, you'll never get away from spam completely. Open anything warily- think of it like always having some junk mail in amoung your post that you have to sift out. You cant tell from the subject line which is which.
Delete and forget it, if at all possible.
Fi
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