OT: Interesting Emails - Page 4

geoschmo · #31 January 12th, 2005, 02:00 PM

Well, it's semantics really, but you can be said to be saving money if you pay less for something that you were planning on buying anyway. But if the lower price inticed you buy something that you otherwise wouldn't have bought, then no, you aren't really saving anything.

AgentZero · #32 January 12th, 2005, 03:27 PM

I've got me a lovely little Yahoo account that only gets 5-10 spams a day & Thunderbird's junk filter handles most of those nicely. On the other hand, my hotmail account, which I use whenever a website asks me for an email addresss, gets 400 a DAY. Doesn't bother me though. Just cruise through every so often and delete everything. Easy peasy.

AMF · #33 January 12th, 2005, 03:31 PM

If anyone out there wants a Gmail account I can send them one. I have six to give away. You could start a gmail account anew and probably have it free from spam for some period of time provided you're cautious/diligent in not giving it out to websites or skeezoids...

Just send me an email, and I'll send you the gmail account invite...

thanks,

Alarik

Baron Munchausen · #34 January 12th, 2005, 03:36 PM

Yeah, I also have taken to blocking the 'Windows default' browser in my firewall. Only when I need to visit Windows Update do I unblock it.

Baron Munchausen · #35 January 12th, 2005, 03:39 PM

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Grandpa Kim said:

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Atrocities said:
Wouldn't it just be hiliarious if we found out that windows gathered our email information and then uploaded said info to MS and then MS sold that info to Spammers. I would drive the 300 miles to MS Corprate office and pee on the MS Sign out front. When asked why, I shall say the insessent spam email I got because MS sold my info drove me insane. Wanna bet I get off.... ew, ok bad joice of words.... get away with it.

LOL With a jury of your peers, MS wouldn't stand a chance. ROFL

I'm still training Thunderbird's junk mail filter, so I see much of my spam. ... If I bought a tenth of the prescription drugs offered to me I'd be stoned for the rest of my natural life and well into the hereafter!

...But the money I'd save would make me as wealthy as dear Mr. Gates.

I have just gotten around to starting to use the Mozilla 'junk' filters myself in the Last few days. I only had to flag about three of those stupid '419 scam' Messages before it started to recognize them. Now it automatically moves them to the 'junk' folder. Very nice. We'll see if I bother to report them to their ISP anymore now...

Baron Munchausen · #36 January 12th, 2005, 03:43 PM

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AgentZero said:
I've got me a lovely little Yahoo account that only gets 5-10 spams a day & Thunderbird's junk filter handles most of those nicely. On the other hand, my hotmail account, which I use whenever a website asks me for an email addresss, gets 400 a DAY. Doesn't bother me though. Just cruise through every so often and delete everything. Easy peasy.

Warning: As I have posted before, the word 'on the net' is that MS actually does harvest the email addresses of people you send Messages to and they get sold to various 'commercial' concerns who can then pass them on to spammers. The spammers just buy regular commercial lists If you ever receive email from other people who have hotmail accounts, you know where the spammers are getting your address.