Help!

M

Matthewalb

Ever since I signed up for this list, I am getting hundreds of emails
that appear to be from microsoft. Somehow I got on some huge email
lsit and can't get off, it keeps filling my email list to capacity and
I can't get out of it. Does anyone know how to get off the email
list?

Thanks,
Matthew
 
K

Kyle Skrinak

Matthew:

It appears you're including a legitimate e-mail address in your message
header (which I won't paste here for obvious reasons.) Various "spider"
technologies eat that stuff right up. Imagine dropping steak in a piranha
tank...

Once it's out there, its too late. You're request is kind of like asking;
"Mr. Thief, may I please have my stereo equipment back, please" except that
they've already spread countless perfect copies of your e-mail to other
slithering creatures.

Well, at least it was a free account?
Kyle
 
C

Corentin Cras-Méneur

Matthewalb said:
Ever since I signed up for this list, I am getting hundreds of emails
that appear to be from microsoft. Somehow I got on some huge email
lsit and can't get off, it keeps filling my email list to capacity and
I can't get out of it. Does anyone know how to get off the email
list?
Click to expand...

Here is a simple rule:
Don't ever post with your real e-mail address... Spambots see it and
immediately add it to their list.

Instead, spoof the address by adding something (obvious for real
human beings but that would spoof the spambots) in your e-mail address
after the @ (if you add it before, it puts the load on your ISP's mail
server, if you add it after, it puts the load on the SMTP for the
spammer :->>).

In my case, I added a NoSpam after the @. You can still e-mail me by
removing the NoSpam from my address (as mentioned in my signature). Some
eveolved news clients (that are compliant with the "Good Net-Keeping
Seal of Approval) accept a spoofed address in the From field and provide
a working address in the Reply-To field (that shoudl be the case for my
post).


Corentin
 
Top