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Sorry. Just thought that would be the best thing to do Sonic Boom...And I HOPE we get spam filtering, I need it :D...:)
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09-16-2004 01:46 AM
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thats an easy fix, dont sign up for stupid news letters and pr0n :o
09-16-2004 03:47 AM
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thats an easy fix, dont sign up for stupid news letters and pr0n :o



              pr0n?
09-21-2004 12:45 AM
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pr0n?
leet talk for "porno"...

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thats an easy fix, dont sign up for stupid news letters and pr0n
The most spam comes from just publishing your email on the net though... spamcrawlers search for emails on the net, just like searchrobots (like google) search for pages...
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09-21-2004 02:09 AM
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O.P. RE: Emails @msgplus.net available again!
Question for you CookieRevised, you sorta, well to me, act like you get NO spamm. How is that? You have your sig just like mine, a image to click for a email to send to me to my @msgplus.net email...?
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09-21-2004 02:28 AM
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I do get spam, +- 15 mails a day, but I know that that is normal when you have a public mail on some public board, so I don't fuzz about it, or make a big deal out of it :p

Also, they are automaticly filtered/moved. Not with some spamkiller or anything, just the normal filters in my mailclient (Netscape).  And if a spam gets past the filter (very very rarely these days) then it's only 1 click of the button to teach the filter that it is also spam. And for each spam I recieve my filter gets more and more intelligenter....

In short, I don't need a special serverside filter. In fact I like to know what is send to my inbox, even if it is spam. A serverside filter   would be handy in general. But for me, personally, it isn't needed. And that's also why I previously said that using your local mailclient's filters will work perfectly, etc...

oh, and one MAJOR tip: don't click on things like "click here to unsubscribe" or "go here to remove you from the mailinglist"....
By clicking on those things, you will only confirm that your email is a valid email!! So, maybe they will stop mailing you, but they also sell your email to other companies who again sell your mail to others, etc... etc... So, just ignore those spam mails and those "click here to remove" and only, (repeat: only!) when you notice that a spammail keeps coming from the same sender then you can click on those links, as in 99% of the cases, you WILL be removed then, but all others: just ignore....

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Hmm, lets see. I use Internet Explorer and the webmail to check my email...It has NO filter things, wait it does, I make a "filter" thing to automticaly delete things in the first line of the subject like Hey, RE:,FWD:,re: and stuff like tthat,but then I log off and it takes the filter off...:-/
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09-21-2004 12:49 PM
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Like I said, use a proper mailclient... @msgplus.net is a POP3 email, so use it in that way, instead of turning it into a crappy webmail like Hotmail.
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