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"Tell me something I don't know!"

"By July 2003 you will be getting more spam than e-mail you actually want from people you actually know."

Bull plop. Every day I get about 8 emails, and EVERY single one is either "enlarge your penis" crap, or a virus. And I can't even block them anymore, as my block list became full almost two YEARS ago

About once a week I get something I want, either something from a friend (hardly any of my mates use the internet) or something I've signed up for. The rest of the time, I just have to delete everything new in my inbox.

Just about every time you sign up for something, your address gets handed around to other places. And since I've been using the same address for years... mine has been passed around a LOT

Microsoft need to make the block list an infinite number. Having a limit is just "stoo-pad"

Damn spam

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Yeah, I need to check my email account daily, just to keep the viruses
> out so I don't reach my limit. If that happens, they start deleting MY
> emails, and not the crappy ones with viruses attached. Morons at
> Microsoft

Put the emails you want to save in a new folder in your inbox. They dont delete those ones, just one ones in the generic inbox

Yeah, I need to check my email account daily, just to keep the viruses out so I don't reach my limit. If that happens, they start deleting MY emails, and not the crappy ones with viruses attached. Morons at Microsoft

Block lists dont usualy work against spam because they change addresses all the time, if you look at the sender it will be from (for example)

[email protected]

You can stop them :-(

½pint wrote:
> If I leave my inbox for a few days, my storage limit gets reached,
> thanks to spam. And why? Because I freely gave out my e-mail address
> on the internet.

*Sigh*

If I leave my inbox for a few days, my storage limit gets reached, thanks to spam. And why? Because I freely gave out my e-mail address on the internet.

Cyclone wrote:
> Tis annoying.
>
> I get 'LOLFUN' emails.
>
> Sums it up really dosen't it?


Posted it twice to emphasise it? :-P

Christanious Mincefire wrote:
> I send reply letteres with lots and lots of swearing in them.
>
> what I am counting on is their computers not being able to handle
> massages back, and exploding in their faces.


Something like this went on a while ago. Microsoft (Or some other company) were scared of hackers so put tracers on all emails that picked up on keywords such as "hack", "virus" etc

All of the hackers found out about this and sent each other loads of emails filled with keywords until the system crashed, it was never re-made.

Tis annoying.

I get 'LOLFUN' emails.

Sums it up really dosen't it?

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Oh, and there's always the "You have been approved for our mega
> platinum, super duper card" stuff. It makes me sick


I get that through the post too!

Oh a did you know that people sell your email address to other spammy companies?

Your precious little email address has made some fat internet baron wealthy, makes you sick doesnt it!