OT Questions: Anyone else getting all the MS Spam?

aal of the above and more. sometimes you're sold to another con for a different scam. sometimes the rip you off, rob your house, steal numbers. the perverse ingenuity of the scum is beyond measure. most of these clowns earn 1/4 or less for all the work then it would have taken to earn legit.

Who knows? There are natural substances that can make one--shall we say--more sensitive, and there's Viagra. There's probably a lot of sugar pills out there too , or worse. The spam-like messages are all over the radio too, and in the newspapers. Count on the fact that someone is answering some small proportion of these ads, because otherwise they would evaporate. It's clearly an indication that using computers has become so simple that even a hyena can be trained to do it.

Mark Schynert

Thanks--this works like a charm. I'm only losing ten minutes a day now instead of having the phone tied up for a couple of hours until all this crap downloads. Pathetic thing is, I've got a Mac, I don't use Windows even as a virtual, and I don't use an MS program for e-mail, so it's probably largely inert crap. Still, no way I'm going to allow any .exe to run on my computer unless/until I know it's bona fide.

Mark Schynert

Thank you, Nick. I'm going to give it a try. Jerry 47

Nick, It seemed to take it. I wonder why MS made it so hard to find? :) Jerry 47

Herewith, the Rules of spam: Rule #0: Spam is theft; Rule #1: Spammers lie; Rule #2: If a spamer appears to be telling the trugh, see Rule #1; Rule #3: Spammers are stoopid; Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.

that's the point, to cripple a person's email. public execution is a good idea for the spreaders. bet tv ratings would be great. add in taggers and you've gor neilson heaven.

hmm, dr benway with a rusty can opener...

That's exactly what's been happening to me. My 'bulk mail' box is filling up with this crap overnight and making my account over quota.

Bastards! I just shelled out $19.99 to Yahoo! to upgrade my mailbox capacity to 35MB vice the standard 10MB.

Makes me wonder if they're somehow in cahoots with the mailers.....

It works for me too. I've noticed a slight slackening since yesterday but it's probably not over.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

there's a roumer that microcrap actually unleashed a muncher to kill it.

I like this - and I would like the clowns that makes the spam to come around to everyone to apologize - I know it's a fat chance, but I have to keep dreaming......

None since yesterday afternoon.

With any luck he had so much fun he blew an anurism.

Back to the regular daily spam:sex, viagra, stock tips, vacation scams, enlargements and the like.

Oh, btw, a guy not too far from here got caught doing a smaller but similar creep game last year. He came home from court to find that his house had been broken into, computer gone (only thing missing) and every room in the house seriously vandalized. I guess the vigilante bell still ringson occasion.

Tom

the french had rolling gulliotines. they should get fait trails and speedys sentancing.

This is the reason that years ago I decided not to include a working email address on any of my post's. There is yet to be any reasonable law passed in the USA to stop this kind of abuse. Hopefully after all this no call list fight we can stop some of this. ME

I have noticed a GREAT deal of MS related spam and have decided to use my email filters to handle it. All emails NOT containing a keyword go right in the trash.

Hoping legislation will solve all your problems may not be the best idea. One, it may violate freedom of speach (not sure if you guys still have that)

A growing number of spam companies have moved off shore where such state laws will have no meaning.

Keyword protection seems to be working rather well, think of it as a password for incomming mail. My email provider is working on passive filters so suspect emails are tagged as spam before I even get it.

I don't what would be a good email program for you windows users except that the microsoft email program has more faults then the San Fran Bay area.

On that note, I wish you the best of luck.

ME wrote:

That doesn't solve the problem of it filling up your mail box before you download it. ISPs should have taken action to keep this crap off their mail servers in the first place. :(