- Rant : The Virgin net anti-spam filter
- Posted by Zardoz on January 4th, 2005
I signed up for broadband with virgin just before christmas (not yet
connected) and today logged in to my email account for the first time
to find a staggering (30 ish) amount of junk mail - proper, no
nonsense loans and penis extensions and online degrees type stuff.
And I havn't given _anyone_ my email address.
That's shit service that is. Don't suppose I'll bother giving anyone
my that address either...
- Posted by Colin Wilson on January 4th, 2005
Congrats, I get ~250 per *day* (down from ~580 per day)
Get mailwasher and set some filters up. I`ve got some half decent ones to
start you off here, along with some of the old free mailwasher betas :
http://www.coreutilities.co.uk
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- Posted by Ian Stirling on January 4th, 2005
Zardoz <me@you.twang> wrote:
What is the address?
I get lots of email to random addresses@mauve.demon.co.uk
- Posted by Cullen Skink on January 4th, 2005
"Zardoz" <me@you.twang> wrote in message
news:i5skt0pul1jedh0ogsimrvksofdsfkc5qp@4ax.com...
You don't need to give anyone your address to get spam. Spammers use
software that generates thousands of names in front of the domain part of
the address and email them all.
- Posted by chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn on January 4th, 2005
Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
That happens to my domain too. I think it's a common ploy with spambots.
IMO, it is worth getting a good mail service to filter at source. I
simply never get junk mail in my inbox any more. As I forward all my
legit email to an orange account that sends me a text message, that's an
important issue for me! Even in my junk mail folder, only about 1
message a day is left there, as any obvious spam is automatically
deleted without my even knowing it arrived.
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- Posted by Phil Thompson on January 4th, 2005
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:36:24 +0000, Zardoz <me@you.twang> wrote:
about an hour's worth.
Do Virgin claim to have anti-spam filters ?
Phil
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- Posted by Spin Dryer on January 4th, 2005
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:36:24 +0000, [Zardoz] said :-
That's irrelevant, spammers already have your address - but there
would have been poor unfortunate 'people' that have had the bounce
message to the previously non-existent mailbox.
Alternatively, someone pre-owned that mailbox and cancelled it, and by
chance, you have set it up again.
Explain that sentence.
- Posted by Ian Stirling on January 4th, 2005
Colin Wilson <void@btinternet.com> wrote:
One day I got a quarter of a million.
(10% of demons incoming email)
- Posted by Colin Wilson on January 4th, 2005
Nice !
I was once joe-jobbed and got a new one every 6-12 seconds for about 2
weeks, but that probably out-does mine :-}
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- Posted by Dave on January 4th, 2005
"Ian Stirling" <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:41daf95e$0$63088$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
How long did that take to download ;-)
Dave
- Posted by Bill on January 4th, 2005
chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn wrote:
I have found that there are only 10 'random_address' that seem to be
used (or at least by the spambots that have found my domain)
So 10 blackholes does the trick for those.
Bill
- Posted by Zardoz on January 5th, 2005
The email service provided by Virgin is below the standard I have
experienced from competing suppliers.
- Posted by Ian Stirling on January 5th, 2005
Dave <davenpat@btopenworld.com> wrote:
I was able to get it bulk deleted.
I had written an optimised SMTP mail reciever that was bouncing
incoming at 4-5 a second, and it was building up...
(actually, it was bounces from spam sent in my name, not spam itself)
