OT spam

Hello FOAK.

I get about 60spams a day now - getting silly. But, when I look at some of
them they don't seem to be addressed to me.

In the 'from' box I see all sorts of stuff.

In the 'to' box I very rarely see my address. The addresses often end with
@lineone.net, but they don't start with my e-mail name.

I pay Tiscali (who took over lineone) about £8 a month for a connection, so
why do I get e-mail not addressed directly to me. Don't tell me to ask
Tiscali - I have asked here first so I have the correct answer before I
tackle them.

And, yes; I have read the various spam newsgroups but they don't seem to
offer rational comments, I think they are mainly American.

Not OT: yesterday I bought a lovely new Takachi open-face helmet; it's
comfortable and quiet. At £40 (with an ACU gold sticker) it's also quite
cheap.

John

 

Spammers send out loads of emails with the addresses (including yours) in
the "Bc" field?

 

You are probably being CCed or more likley BCCed in it

--
Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7
Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

I get that. The most popular one is

I've set my email client to delete from the server anything not
addressed to me.

 

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

Or

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

 

Or just plain Mozilla.

 

I'm trying this one out:
http://www.spamihilator.com/

So far, so good.

 

Good man. I give a different email address on my own domain to every
organisation (banks, on-line stores etc) I deal with who merits my
*real* email address rather than my throwaway hotmail account. These
all get forwarded to my current physical email address.

Each address contains a certain string. Anything else is
automatically deleted and if I get spam (which I rarely do) I can see
which organisation has got a leaky database.

 

I have a Takachi MX lid. Much cheapness and ACU gold approved for £60
Bargain.
Can't help thinking of Takeshi's Castle though.

 

The To: header is meaningless. It's the SMTP envelope that counts (the
"RCPT To:" line the servers use to talk to each other)

If I send the following to a mail server...

MAIL From:
RCPT To:
DATA
From:
To:
Subject: test

wah wah wah
..

....then you'll get a copy of the mail, apparently not addressed to you.
If this didn't work, you'd not be able to redirect mail without causing
serious breakage.

 

Does anyone ever win? Must flick through cable and find that again.

 

the cont known as Lady Nina says...

Very occasionally. Challenge TV, channel 80.

 

As others said, you'll be being BCCed the email.

I highly recommend PopFile for spam filtering. It's so easy my dad can
use it, and makes very few mistakes.

It does POP3 and (with a plugin for outlook) exchange, and it's free.

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

 

I installed Firefox this week and was impressed enough to be keeping
it. How does that help with spam though?

 

Echo, echo, echo.

 

I had a look when I surfaced, it's on at 4pm apparently. However I
think I'm going to finish news and mail then head back to bed for a
bit. Weekends rock.

 

So what? I said it with *panache*!

 

Sounds good. How do I do that? I've poked about in IE6 but can't find a
reference to email client.

John

 

Be careful with that sort of filter, it's a bit extreme and not suitable
for everyone.