RE: The Spammers Are Learning...

Seth,

Spamming is bad.

I now get emails with the "To:" portion not even being addressed to me! I'm merely added on the BCC field and spammed that way. :-(

The frequency is increasing. Soon enough I need to change my email client or settings to leave my mail on the server until I decide to download it.

Don

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RE: The Spammers Are Learning...

On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:15:18 -0500, Brian Carnell wrote:

>Spam still makes me laugh more than anything....

Me, too.

I use PocoMail now ( http://www.pocomail.com/ ), and it's got excellent Junk Mail filters...it throws all the junk mail in a separate folder, and I'd say it's about 95% accurate at what it filters out, based on criteria such as non-valid headers, TO: fields not actually to me, etc. -- plus, I can easily ( via right-click menu ) allow or deny particular senders/domains to help teach it what it doesn't do right.

It's also got the must-have feature of allowing you to not download embedding messages in HTML mail, so what spam to do have to look through doesn't slow everything down.

That said, I'm really glad to have it filtered, but I do look through it and laugh quite often. Luckily I have high-speed connections and work and home, so I don't get too annoyed about the wasted bandwidth...my favorite recent spam subject line was "BAND CAMP GIRLS!!!!.....WITH FLUTES!!!!"

I just got this one today, which also cracked me up...

"Hi, I'm Heather. I grew up in California. I'm 19 years old. I'm attending a local JC. I don't want to
wait on tables to get through college, so I made my own adult website. I'm not a whore running
around f**king everyone. But I do collect teen amateur clips and post them on this website. You
should check it out. Just $3.00 to get started. Hope to see you around."

The "I'm not a whore..." line really had me LOL!

g.

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RE: The Spammers Are Learning...

On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:15:59 -0500, Donald W. Larson wrote:

>Do you think PocoMail is better than Eudora? I'm looking for a email
>client replacement when I move to OS X shortly.

Unfortunately, PocoMail is Windows-only.

I do all my e-mail on my Windows laptop, because it's what I have to use at work all day.

It's a shame, too...because Poco is the only email client I've ever really been happy with, I wish I could use it on my Mac, too.

g.

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Time-Travellin' Spam!

Okay, this one definitely takes the cake as the weirdest piece of unsolicited email I've ever received. It's not quite spam, as there's no commercial message... it's just weird.

Actually, it made me laugh out loud a couple of times. I'm still shaking my head... Man, some people just shouldn't have access to email, period.

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Date: 12/15/2001 6:20 AM
Received: 12/15/2001 12:20 AM
From: Frank Young <webmaster@eti.com>
To: seth@macrobyteresources.com
 
Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted by
Frank Young (webmaster@eti.com) on Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 06:20:01
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message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or 
have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
 
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
 
I need to be able to:
 
Travel back in time.
 
Rewind my life including my age.
 
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from 
being tampered with again after I go back.
 
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
 
I am aware that there are many types of time travel and that humans do not 
do well through certain types.
 
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. 
To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of 
now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or 
government equipment capable of doing just that.
 
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along 
with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the 
equipment. Proof must be provided.
 
 
Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a 
(SEPARATE) email to:
 
Robby0809@aol.com
 
Thanks
 

 

 

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