STOP Spam?

[sabooya]

Is there a list of things I could do to STOP receiving spam emails. I don't want a filter or something that just hides/deletes them. I'm talking about a way to unsubscribe and stop them from being sent to me?

 

[EMPshockwave82]

click on that link at the bottom that says "unsubscribe me" and they'll stop



hahahahahahhaaha

AFAIK there is no way

 

[darkxshade]

Stop downloading pr0n.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
click on that link at the bottom that says "unsubscribe me" and they'll stop

hahahahahahhaaha
AFAIK there is no way

"unsubscribe" usually means "send me more because I just confirmed I received something from your last batch"

 

[jyates]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
click on that link at the bottom that says "unsubscribe me" and they'll stop

hahahahahahhaaha
AFAIK there is no way

"unsubscribe" usually means "send me more because I just confirmed I received something from your last batch"

Ding Ding Ding We have a winner!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: sabooya
Is there a list of things I could do to STOP receiving spam emails. I don't want a filter or something that just hides/deletes them. I'm talking about a way to unsubscribe and stop them from being sent to me?

Spam, by definition, is unsolicited bulk email. Since you didn't subscribe to it, there's no way to unsubscribe.

 

[dabuddha]

They need to implement a "postal charge" for emails to stop the spam You know the assholes would think twice before sending off a billion emails a day

 

[Engraver]

Only thing you can do is change your e-mail address.

 

[alkemyst]

I have been canning it and reselling...it's made me quite the small fortune. You may have seen it in your grocery store.

 

[George P Burdell]

Get off the grid.

 

[littleprince]

Register a new crazy domain like fjkfkosdajfaviomwaoivmiwoj.com keep the registry info private, create a user account like fjdklfjkdfladsjf and set your server to blackhole emails not sent to the exact address and don't give it to anyone ever.

The last part is important. Once someone has it, its gonna get out.

 

[sabooya]

Do spambots read Mailto: links?

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: sabooya
Do spambots read Mailto: links?

I wouldn't see why not.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: sabooya
Do spambots read Mailto: links?

Of course they do.

 

[OCGuy]

Then where would I get all those cool deals on V iAGr-A C h / Ea P?

 

[DnetMHZ]

Delete your email account.

 

[DrPizza]

It's pretty easy to create dozens or even hundreds of email accounts that will never receive a single spam mail. However, that means you never send email or give out those addresses to anyone. Since this isn't realistic, there are a few steps that seem to help.
1. As soon as you discover that someone who has your address is one of those people who forward a dozen of those emails a day that have been circulating before Al Gore was born, especially the people who don't remove the headers & put 40 email addresses in the "To:", rudely ask them to use "bcc:" to help avoid your email being harvested. Bad: they ignore you; your account eventually gets deluged by spam, and you have to do work to let everyone know (except the aforementioned idiot) your new email address. Better: they start using blind copy. Best: they get pissed at you for your rudeness, take you off their email list, and stop sending you crap.
2. Don't use names that are likely to be used by anyone else in the world. If there's likely to be a sabooya at gmail dot com, then why wouldn't the spammers try sabooya at yahoo & 500 other email providers? i.e. once they have one legitimate name, it takes them practically zero effort to spam to that username @ hundreds of other domains.
3. Even if you do use an easily recognizable name so that people might remember it from a verbal conversation & be able to send you an email later, clever use of allowable punctuation might help. i.e. if you were John Smith, rather than JohnSmith at gmail dot com, you could try J.ohnS.mith at gmail dot com. My wife set up an email account for all our bills, etc. in this manner; it consists of 4 easy to remember words separated by periods. We've had a grand total of zero spam mails in 3 years.

 

[NL5]

I wanna know how comcast does it. Almost never a spam email.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: littleprince
Register a new crazy domain like fjkfkosdajfaviomwaoivmiwoj.com keep the registry info private, create a user account like fjdklfjkdfladsjf and set your server to blackhole emails not sent to the exact address and don't give it to anyone ever.

The last part is important. Once someone has it, its gonna get out.

So you are going to setup a nonsense email server and have it sit there and receive zero emails. this is your solution? If so I have a much more efficient solution. Unplug yourself from the internets. that way you can give your email to everyone and youll never receive spam no matter how many spammers have your email.

 

[sabooya]

Is there a way I can set it up or even manually make it respond to the spammer with a mail delivery failure?

 

[Jeff7]

Convince spammers to commit suicide, like that one guy who recently got out of jail and then killed himself. He went and killed his wife and kids, which may have been unfortunate. But hey, Darwin Award candidate.

More spammers should aspire to that worthy goal: suicide.

Originally posted by: sabooya
Is there a way I can set it up or even manually make it respond to the spammer with a mail delivery failure?

They don't read return mails, and the accounts probably don't go anywhere anyway - fake ones used briefly for spamming, and then they vanish.

 

[Mungla]

Combination of Postini and IMF. The last spam e-mail was from over a year ago.

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.spamprimer.com/

MotionMan

 

[Nitemare]

block entire domain names?

Blocking aol.com, msn.com and cox.net eliminated more than half of my spam.