How can we stop the spam

how can we stop all that spam we get after puttin our
email on here..... someone from microsoft has to know.
this is ridiculous.. COME ON!!!!

"Louieizme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:0c8c01c38471$f02cbae0
$(E-Mail Removed):

> how can we stop all that spam we get after puttin our
> email on here..... someone from microsoft has to know.
> this is ridiculous.. COME ON!!!!

This is a public usenet newsgroup. So what is your point above "someone
from microsoft has to know"?

Checkout how many posters in any public newsgroup post their real email
address. Very few and those who do often mangle it so that the email robots
can't read it or use it. Put your email address on a web page and you've
opened yourselve again to spam.

Use the filtering capabilities of your email client or get a third party
spam blocking tool such as spampal.

This volume of email is not coming from Microsoft it is
coming from a crummy, scumbag who has an infinite amount
of spare time, and does not mind squandering your time by
bugging you. You are receiving email from a virus/worm. I
have received over 700 so far. There is not much you can
do to stem the flow. To reduce the flow of this crap, go
into your Outlook Express and setup Message Rules to
remove it as it comes in.

Good Luck
melvin

>-----Original Message-----
>how can we stop all that spam we get after puttin our
>email on here..... someone from microsoft has to know.
>this is ridiculous.. COME ON!!!!
>.
>

good thing is that filters wont work because the emails
are randomly generated.


>This is a public usenet newsgroup. So what is your point
above "someone
>from microsoft has to know"?
>
>Checkout how many posters in any public newsgroup post
their real email
>address. Very few and those who do often mangle it so
that the email robots
>can't read it or use it. Put your email address on a web
page and you've
>opened yourselve again to spam.
>
>Use the filtering capabilities of your email client or
get a third party
>spam blocking tool such as spampal.
>.
>

"Louieizme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:0da701c38478$48af0f00
$(E-Mail Removed):

> good thing is that filters wont work because the emails
> are randomly generated.
>
>
>>This is a public usenet newsgroup. So what is your point
> above "someone
>>from microsoft has to know"?
>>
You've posted several times complaining about spam but you seem unwilling
to take any proactive action to limit it. It has been suggested that you
advise your ISP to scan and remove spam, you've been advised to run an
antivirus program, and you've been advised to run an anti spam utility.
Each of these suggestions individually won't top spam but they will
significantly reduce it.

You can filter spam with rules. You can increase the filtering success
rate by using a spam blocking tool that incorporates a Baysian
statistical engine, additional success will be achieved if the spam
blocking utility checks with central spam databases as do many of the
free tools available. Much spam is generated by viruses. If you run an
anti virus program with updated current virus databases, the program will
identify and block virus type spam. So stop complaining and take some
proactive action to help yourself.

We all know spam is a problem. Complaining here will result in nothing to
improve your spam situation.

Hopefully you will find a way to reduce your spam. If you find a better
way please let us all know. (Do not spam us though LOL)

I use a different email for news groups then my regular email.

This should keep my regular emal box empty of most spam.

Peter

"melvin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:138c101c38475$e0d4d330$(E-Mail Removed)...
> This volume of email is not coming from Microsoft it is
> coming from a crummy, scumbag who has an infinite amount
> of spare time, and does not mind squandering your time by
> bugging you. You are receiving email from a virus/worm. I
> have received over 700 so far. There is not much you can
> do to stem the flow. To reduce the flow of this crap, go
> into your Outlook Express and setup Message Rules to
> remove it as it comes in.
>
> Good Luck
> melvin
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >how can we stop all that spam we get after puttin our
> >email on here..... someone from microsoft has to know.
> >this is ridiculous.. COME ON!!!!
> >.
> >

Hello Peter;

This is of some help, I am sure. However, if criminals
want to get your email address they will get it easily.
Everytime you log on to the Internet you expose
yourself....no way to stop those who harvest emails for
criminal activity. Read the SECURITY section of this
NEWSGROUP and you will find a myriad of free software
packages to help protect you. Good luck!

melvin

>-----Original Message-----
>I use a different email for news groups then my regular
email.
>
>This should keep my regular emal box empty of most spam.
>
>Peter
>
>"melvin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:138c101c38475$e0d4d330$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> This volume of email is not coming from Microsoft it is
>> coming from a crummy, scumbag who has an infinite amount
>> of spare time, and does not mind squandering your time
by
>> bugging you. You are receiving email from a virus/worm.
I
>> have received over 700 so far. There is not much you can
>> do to stem the flow. To reduce the flow of this crap,
go
>> into your Outlook Express and setup Message Rules to
>> remove it as it comes in.
>>
>> Good Luck
>> melvin
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >how can we stop all that spam we get after puttin our
>> >email on here..... someone from microsoft has to know.
>> >this is ridiculous.. COME ON!!!!
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>

In article <0da701c38478$48af0f00$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Louieizme"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>good thing is that filters wont work because the emails
>are randomly generated.

Not necessarily - a quick check through my email suggests that the From
addresses are generated using a simple rule based on the following:

Pick a number from one to four.

1. Choose from {Admin,Administrator,Microsoft,Postmaster}

2. Choose and concatenate from {,{ms,microsoft} {,corporation}}
{,internet,network} {customer,public,security,technical}
{assistance,bulletin,services,support}
e.g. "MS Corporation Internet Customer Assistance".

3. Choose and concatenate from {,microsoft,ms} {,inet,internet,net,network}
{,email,mail,message} {,delivery,storage} {service,system}
e.g. "MS Internet delibery system"

4. Choose and concatenate from {,microsoft corporation,ms}
{,internet,network,program} security {center,department,division,section}

There's a similarly short list of rules for the subject line.

Then there are key phrases in the message itself. If you really feel a need
to filter with a seriously small percentage of rejections, you can analyse
the emails you receive - or analyse the virus itself - and build a filter
that will be almost certain to only ever reject the virus. Me, I sort by
subject, and hit "Delete" on the ones I recognise as viral. I get through a
thousand or so every day (because I used to transfer them to a holding pen
first).

Alun.
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