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hts

The problem with e-mail is the system as a whole. There are too many ways that spammers exploit the system and they are finding new ones all the time. This link has some pretty straight forward stuff about the spam problem and what really works to fix it. PRIVATE INTERNET MAIL - REPLACE THE BROKEN SPAM INFESTED, VIRUS RIDDEN EMAIL SYSTEM ! Smiley

http://hts.newnetmail.com

ZippyV
Fired Up

Have you guys/system admins checked out spamhaus.org ? If your emailserver has low traffic their service is even free and it stops spam from the source: open proxies, known spam-isp's and zombies.

figuerres
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hts wrote:
The problem with e-mail is the system as a whole. There are too many ways that spammers exploit the system and they are finding new ones all the time. This link has some pretty straight forward stuff about the spam problem and what really works to fix it. PRIVATE INTERNET MAIL - REPLACE THE BROKEN SPAM INFESTED, VIRUS RIDDEN EMAIL SYSTEM ! http://hts.newnetmail.com

and the link looks like a scam to me.

the founders name sounds like a play on "Baysian" and I saw nothing that makes it better....

web site says it just started .... but the Copyright is 2004 ??

Hmmm....

figuerres
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ZippyV wrote:
Have you guys/system admins checked out spamhaus.org ? If your emailserver has low traffic their service is even free and it stops spam from the source: open proxies, known spam-isp's and zombies.

they are usefull but still a bandaid.

also DNS / RBL works on class C subnets.

so if two mail servers are in one C block you block both of them.

unless they changed it recently.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Shark_M wrote:

Matthew van Eerde wrote: That is, indeed, how BCC works.

Explain how I can be receiving an email not addressed to me using BCC?

I send an email to X@ISP.co m and then Y @ ISP.co m gets it? although X is similiar to Y but not equal to it strictly speaking.

How does BCC work in that way?

Also, if you take a look at the full header of the email (not the pretty one that shows up in outlook, the full header), you'll see that your email address is present.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

figuerres wrote:

hts wrote: The problem with e-mail is the system as a whole. There are too many ways that spammers exploit the system and they are finding new ones all the time. This link has some pretty straight forward stuff about the spam problem and what really works to fix it. PRIVATE INTERNET MAIL - REPLACE THE BROKEN SPAM INFESTED, VIRUS RIDDEN EMAIL SYSTEM ! http://hts.newnetmail.com

and the link looks like a scam to me.

the founders name sounds like a play on "Baysian" and I saw nothing that makes it better....

web site says it just started .... but the Copyright is 2004 ??

Hmmm....

The idea is sound, they act as your whitelist database. Of course, then they go on to ruin it by talking about a moneymaking opportunity....two words that scream multi-level marketing rip-off.

Too bad.

Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits

ScanIAm wrote:
Also, if you take a look at the full header of the email (not the pretty one that shows up in outlook, the full header), you'll see that your email address is present.

... not necessarily. Some MTAs do this, some don't, some do sometimes.

Curt8888

NewNetMail is a great service - and they are constantly making the service better. Cool

I am sharing it with everybody i know: www.new-net-mail.ws

ZippyV
Fired Up

Curt8888 wrote:
NewNetMail is a great service - and they are constantly making the service better. I am ~~sharing~~ spamming it with everybody i know: www.new-net-mail.ws

At my technical university we get a Zero on our project if we even think about using 'Comic Sans' as a font.

odujosh
Need Microsoft SUX now!

Gmail is the solution. Next to 0 spam comes through. I know this doesn't yet make sense for the enterprise. But others why are you using an inferior product in a largely free service ad based market.

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

ZippyV wrote:

Curt8888 wrote: NewNetMail is a great service - and they are constantly making the service better. I am ~~sharing~~ spamming it with everybody i know: www.new-net-mail.ws

At my technical university we get a Zero on our project if we even think about using 'Comic Sans' as a font.

Indeed, it should be banned.

Red5
Systems Manager Curmudgen

Massif wrote:
Indeed, it should be banned.

LOL.
I used to work for a large well known company, and the department I worked in used ComicSans for all their internal literature and memos. Most external communications included at some point too.

I CAN'T STAND that font to this day.

Agreed. BAN IT.