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by Charles L. Cotton
Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:56 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Fighting the spam email battle
Replies: 12
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Re: Fighting the spam email battle

jminn1 wrote:Chas,

I'm sorry to say it won't help.
Spammers broadcast to collections of email addresses numbering in the tens (or even hundreds) of millions, and are counting on very very small percentage in reply "hits" to be successful.
Some of them even embed 'web bug' URL bombs in their email which phone-home as soon as someone opens the email in html mode.

Our servers at work encounter 75-100 thousand junk emails per day.

I'm personally seeing 500 to 600 spams per week to my junk personal email address I use for sites I don't trust. It's obnoxious.

It sounds like you have a good strategy for dealing with the problem. Once your address is 'out there', it will continue to get spammed forever.

jminn1
I was afraid of that. Thanks for the information.

Chas.
by Charles L. Cotton
Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:56 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Fighting the spam email battle
Replies: 12
Views: 8126

Fighting the spam email battle

I get around 1,500 spam emails every week at one of my email addresses. I use a server level spam filter that is set pretty tight now and I use a black list also at the server level. I have "rules" set up in Outlook. I cannot go to a white list-only, so that's not an option.

My other email addresses get a fraction of the spam emails that go to my "main" email address. Would it do any good for me to delete my main email address for 30 days or so? If spammers drop bad email addresses periodically I would think deleting it for a while would help. If spammers don't cull their lists, then it won't help.

Chas.

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