Posted by Jonathan on August 30, 2003, at 1:36:19
In reply to Oh it did too., posted by gabbix2 on August 29, 2003, at 21:02:21
> A certain, person has been spamming me with porn ever since I blocked their personal email address, and of course I go through the 'remove me" block block, delete delete, process every morning.
> Honestly, it is one of the reasons I've been so grouchy the last month, truly. Its brought up a lot of "stuff" which is exactly what it was intended to do.
>
> But anyway with one of the emails when I press delete, and 'remove name" automatically opens up a whole bunch of new porn windows, and it just infuriates me. Oh yeah its illegal, but who's listening?
>
> Sorry, a little tangent..I recently found a solution to problems like this: a program called MailWasher which you can download from http://www.mailwasher.net/
It lets you preview all your new mail while it's still on the server, before downloading it to Outlook or another POP mail client. If you open a message before deciding that it's spam, it's opened as plain text so that Javascript pop-up windows, or HTML spy images to tell the sender that you've read it, don't work.
My favourite feature is the way it can bounce mail back to the sender with a (to me) convincing "Returned mail: User unknown" message apparently from your ISP's mailer-daemon, as if your account no longer exists, in the hope that the spammers will remove you from their mailing list. I haven't been using it long enough yet to find out if this really will reduce the amount of spam I receive.
I'm so sorry you've been going through such a bad time recently.
((((((Gabbi))))))
It's great news that your friend is moving to the town in which you live :)
Jonathan.
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