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Came in this morning and had 164 junk e-mails and not one was keepable. Took me 10 minutes to go through them. Granted it was through the weekend and I haven't been here since Friday. But still I'm averaging probably 60 per day.
Let's say with the 4 of us we are averaging 60 a day each, times 5 minutes of time to go through and delete them, it is costing me 20 minutes of downtime per day times 5 days = 1 hr and 40 minutes of labor. I can pinstripe a big rig in that amount of time and make a couple hundred bucks.
Who out there knows of software to help me cut down of this s%$^! I'm madder than an old wet hen!
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Bill, You can set up in Outlook Express to send those to a folder that you also set up. You would set it up in MESSAGE/CREATE RULE FROM MESSAGE. That can get rid of a lot.
I run Kaspersky antivirus and that checks it and sends it to the DELETE folder. Before I delete, I go in and skim to see if I missed anything.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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dave @ monumental designs .com (my account)was getting easily as many as you.
Steve started using Outlook Express to capture our mail (instead of using Nero mail) and set a filter somewhere to block the spam or anything that looked like spam.
Well, that stopped some of the other mail too. I also noticed that when I send e-mails, sometimes I have to verifiy that I'm a real person and not a spaming machine.
Steve did somethin else (somewhere in Outlook) and now only a few stock quote spam gets through, and I seem to be gettin most of our dealer sign shop mail.
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A lot of your spam/junk comes from cookies being sent to your computer from average surfing the net. Try Secure Internet Explorer. I have been using it for years, with pop ups blocked, I get about 3 a day- touch wood. You also should go into your windows files- cookies-temp cookies and delete them. They are the rotten beggars that are spamming you.
-------------------- Deri Russell Wildwood Signs Hanover, Ontario
You're just jealous 'cause the little voices only talk to me. Posts: 1904 | From: Hanover, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Dec 1998
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i have my regular email that I use for sending art and contacting customers. I have a yahoo address for anytime I sign up for a website or buy anything...and I do know even if you DO check the box to not receive their mail you do. Even if they say they DO NOT sell your adress to others, they lie.
I get about 2-4 email perd ay of stock picks and health insurance...that yahoo gets pounded by junk. and laura as far as spam folder I dont like that my comp dont know whats spam and what aint. I would rather pick thru. I use outlook express with no beels and shistles I even disabled the email scanning with no probs I know what i need to open and expect
-------------------- You ever notice how easily accessible people are when they are requiring your services but once they get invoice you can't reach them anymore
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I switched to att for IP and away went the spam. Now I am on cable...no spam there either. I'm talking zero. I also run AVG which scans all email for virii.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I was gone last week, watching my grandson while our son and his wife moved to a new house. I got back today and checked my mail and I have 406 messages! %^@#$%^!!! And the guys even checked my mail while I was gone and deleted some of it! MAKE IT STOP!!!
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Deri is right: Block those pointless cookies and pop-ups. You have to enable them for some legit sites -- this one needs cookies, for instance -- but it's either that, or keep griping about spam.
And one more time: Subscribe to spamcop.net, and start reporting every single one of those t**ds as they arrive. Pardon the repitition, but I do all this, and very, very seldom get spam. Most recent report from my ISP was 2 spams MailBlocked in 14 days. One got thru, and it went to SpamCop. At the beginning, years ago, it was a lot of work.But no more.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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Bill, Jane, is it spam coming through your diazsignart domain?
If so, check with your web host or log into your hosting control panel if you have one available and check the spam settings on the server. Some hosts will have filters at the server level that will take care of at least 95% of the spam. I have my filters at Maximum and there's still a few that make it through, but nowhere near the 200 per day I used to get. The filters are pretty reliable at only attacking spam and not regular emails, although a few do get eaten up here and there.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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You're singing my song Bill! Very frustrating to get mail from Humidity P Trailer. I think the names are randomly drawn from some dictionary program. Plus, many are duplicates....sometimes 10-12 of the same message.
Part of the trouble with Laura's solution is that there is no text to create rule from because they have converted the text to JPEGS, thus making the text indetectable by the internal "rule" filters. Just proves how devious they can be.
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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I have one addy for my official stuff, one for "my stuff" and one that I give for other stuff in case I get put on a sucker list. It's easy to change email addys for the last one, not so easy for the others. In fact, I've had my signpimp50 addy for 6 years and I almost never get any spam, less than 5 a month.
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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I switched my website hosting to bluehost and have gotten pretty good at adjusting the spam filters they have. I'm down to 1-2 spams going into my mail account. They use spamassassin.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Have Joe get ahold of Adam. He can help get sapm blockers installed on the server side to help block 95% of that stuff silently. That is if you have a dedicated or virtual server set up for your web clients.
-------------------- Beth Bryant Amp Studio 613 Peoria St Lincoln, IL 62656 217-735-9939 or (cell) 217-828-0021 beth@ampstudio.net
There is meaning to my madness! Posts: 37 | From: Lincoln, Illinois | Registered: Jul 2005
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