 newviewEx .. Ex .. ExactlyPremium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
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| I suspect the only way to express our displeasure . . . at this turn of events is to begin refusing ALL mail from those mailers who have implemented the "Certified Email" (Legit Spammer) system.
Yes . . . immediately begin refusing ALL mail from AOL & Yahoo. Basically send that message that we will NOT allow you to determine for us what is legit spam to eat.
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 ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA | I wish my 3rd party email provider 1and1 gave me the option to bounce email (not just drop them in a spam box) from specific domains.
My old Prodigy dial up game me options to bounce email to domain, use their blackmail lists, block overseas email etc.
I need to hunt down another cheap email provider.
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join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL | said by ColorBASIC:I need to hunt down another cheap email provider. Google: gmail?  |
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ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA | I use GMail and get 100 spam messages a day. |
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quatrixPremium
join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
kudos:2 | Don't blame it on Gmail. It depends on how easy it is to guess your address, who you give it to, etc. One of my Gmail addresses gets 5 - 10 pieces of spam a day, and the other gets only 1 or 2 (often none at all). Ironically, it's the address I give to banks and other "reputable" companies that gets spammed more. The other gets a few spam messages all in Chinese, so I think lik-sang.com sold my address. Hotmail and Yahoo! (worthless anyway) are a lot worse. You get hundreds of pieces of spam before you even use your address. |
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ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA
2 edits | I'm not blaming GMail...I whore out my email all the time. I just don't like their limited spam controls. I would like the option to bounce email rather than just have it loaded into a spam folder. But GMail is free and reliable so I really have nothing to bitch about.
I'm more interested in a 3rd party web host that offers these bounce and block features...meaning the ability to "refuse/bounce" email rather than accept it and divert it to a trash can or spam box.
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| Bouncing spam isn't nice at all... My main spam problem at the moment (about 99% of it) is backscatter caused by idiots who can't configure their mail servers properly. A mail server should reject spam and invalid users during the SMTP session instead of accepting the message first and then bouncing it. The bounces end up going to some poor user (i.e. me) that had his email forged on the spam messages. Postini refuses to filter most of these so I have to set up filters to catch all of these unwanted non-delivery report messages. |
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ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA | I'm not talking about pseudo-bouncing where a reply is sent back to the "reply to" address.
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