Offensive e-mail
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I hope it's OK to ask this question here. I think y'all are much smarter
than Marilyn Vos Savant! So here goes:
I am the moderator for a yahoogroups list for my local homeschool group.
A woman who just subscribed said since she subscribed she began to
receive a lot of offensive junk e-mail. She thinks it is related to her
joining the list.
About two months ago, I also started to receive lots of junk e-mail
solicitations for viagra, earn money at home, and related subjects and
many of them do have subject headings that are not the sort of thing I
would choose to read about. When I complained to dh, he said just delete
and forget about it. So I have been, until I received the e-mail today
from the new list member.
Has anybody else experienced this? Do you think it could be related to
yahoogroups? I am going to write to yahoo to ask if they know or can do
anything about this. Any other suggestions?
Mary Ellen
than Marilyn Vos Savant! So here goes:
I am the moderator for a yahoogroups list for my local homeschool group.
A woman who just subscribed said since she subscribed she began to
receive a lot of offensive junk e-mail. She thinks it is related to her
joining the list.
About two months ago, I also started to receive lots of junk e-mail
solicitations for viagra, earn money at home, and related subjects and
many of them do have subject headings that are not the sort of thing I
would choose to read about. When I complained to dh, he said just delete
and forget about it. So I have been, until I received the e-mail today
from the new list member.
Has anybody else experienced this? Do you think it could be related to
yahoogroups? I am going to write to yahoo to ask if they know or can do
anything about this. Any other suggestions?
Mary Ellen
[email protected]
In a message dated 2/23/02 1:01:12 PM, megates@... writes:
<< About two months ago, I also started to receive lots of junk e-mail
solicitations for viagra, earn money at home, and related subjects and
many of them do have subject headings that are not the sort of thing I
would choose to read about. When I complained to dh, he said just delete
and forget about it. >>
The first thing I do when I open my e-mail is delete the solicitations to
borrow money or see farmgirls have sex with animals or to have a bigger
penis. Then I read the rest of the mail.
When I go to the physical mailbox in front of my house, first thing I do is
throw away things I really didn't want, and then I bring the "real" mail on
in the house.
Similar with TV (I get up and pee, or eat, or feed the fire, or the cats
during commercials) and the newspaper (when I read it, I read very little of
it).
The way yahoogroups works is anybody can join any and every group. And when
you've joined you can see the list and you can get the e-mail, which comes
from addresses, and there they are.
There are also random e-mail-address-generator machines, it seems, the same
way there are random phone-number dialers. So there's no refuge. Even
unlisted numbers get called by those machines.
I think your husband's right. Just figure out which ones not to read.
And if and when you're sending e-mail to real friends, make it clear by the
subject line that you're not advertising for them to view the cam of people
enlarging their farm animals' penises.
People change their e-mail addresses sometimes to get rid of junkmail, but
it's not long before they're getting similar stuff at a new address.
It's a byproduct of being in a free country based very heavily on capitalism.
Sandra
<< About two months ago, I also started to receive lots of junk e-mail
solicitations for viagra, earn money at home, and related subjects and
many of them do have subject headings that are not the sort of thing I
would choose to read about. When I complained to dh, he said just delete
and forget about it. >>
The first thing I do when I open my e-mail is delete the solicitations to
borrow money or see farmgirls have sex with animals or to have a bigger
penis. Then I read the rest of the mail.
When I go to the physical mailbox in front of my house, first thing I do is
throw away things I really didn't want, and then I bring the "real" mail on
in the house.
Similar with TV (I get up and pee, or eat, or feed the fire, or the cats
during commercials) and the newspaper (when I read it, I read very little of
it).
The way yahoogroups works is anybody can join any and every group. And when
you've joined you can see the list and you can get the e-mail, which comes
from addresses, and there they are.
There are also random e-mail-address-generator machines, it seems, the same
way there are random phone-number dialers. So there's no refuge. Even
unlisted numbers get called by those machines.
I think your husband's right. Just figure out which ones not to read.
And if and when you're sending e-mail to real friends, make it clear by the
subject line that you're not advertising for them to view the cam of people
enlarging their farm animals' penises.
People change their e-mail addresses sometimes to get rid of junkmail, but
it's not long before they're getting similar stuff at a new address.
It's a byproduct of being in a free country based very heavily on capitalism.
Sandra
Marietta Shirk
You can say that again! I recently changed my email address after having
the same one for 5 years (imagine how much spam I got in that amount of
time!). It didn't take more than a week for me to be "found", and I get
almost as much spam as before.
Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1
the same one for 5 years (imagine how much spam I got in that amount of
time!). It didn't take more than a week for me to be "found", and I get
almost as much spam as before.
Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1
> People change their e-mail addresses sometimes to get rid of junkmail, but
> it's not long before they're getting similar stuff at a new address.
>
> Sandra
Fetteroll
on 2/24/02 12:05 AM, Marietta Shirk at mariettashirk@... wrote:
spam over the 4 years we've been on.
Joyce
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> It didn't take more than a week for me to be "found", and I getEarthlink seems to have a pretty good filter. I've gotten maybe 5 pieces of
> almost as much spam as before.
spam over the 4 years we've been on.
Joyce
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Sharon Rudd
I don't get any spam (probably that will change today)
on this yahoo addy. We get lots on our provider addy
(ATT).
Do not respond to the the "unsub reply click here"
footnotes. That merely confirms that you are a valid
address....and you'll get more!
I used to trace the source for spam to be able to make
valid abuse complaints...lots came from foreign
origins. China, area's of the Ukraine, northern
Africa, Russia, lots from Korea..... I downloaded
Cyrillic, Arabic, other scripts....was pretty
interesting for a while. Making complaints to the
foreign service providers. Once got a map to an
office in downtown Moscow to the complaint office!
Then it got boring. All the same. Spam. Sleaze is
sleaze is sleaze.
If you play around with a turd, eventually some of it
will rub off. Now I just delete.
Wonder if there are incripted messages in some of this
stuff that are subversive (besides the general
degenerate nature of it). Maybe it is on the order of
pushing...to undermine the health of the general
population? Or like these bothersome viruses. Just
ugly for ulgy's sake. The same sort of ugly that
scratches stranger's parked vehicles.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the
bone. And it is internationally pervasive....not
restricted to capitalists.
Sharon of the Swamp
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
http://sports.yahoo.com
on this yahoo addy. We get lots on our provider addy
(ATT).
Do not respond to the the "unsub reply click here"
footnotes. That merely confirms that you are a valid
address....and you'll get more!
I used to trace the source for spam to be able to make
valid abuse complaints...lots came from foreign
origins. China, area's of the Ukraine, northern
Africa, Russia, lots from Korea..... I downloaded
Cyrillic, Arabic, other scripts....was pretty
interesting for a while. Making complaints to the
foreign service providers. Once got a map to an
office in downtown Moscow to the complaint office!
Then it got boring. All the same. Spam. Sleaze is
sleaze is sleaze.
If you play around with a turd, eventually some of it
will rub off. Now I just delete.
Wonder if there are incripted messages in some of this
stuff that are subversive (besides the general
degenerate nature of it). Maybe it is on the order of
pushing...to undermine the health of the general
population? Or like these bothersome viruses. Just
ugly for ulgy's sake. The same sort of ugly that
scratches stranger's parked vehicles.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the
bone. And it is internationally pervasive....not
restricted to capitalists.
Sharon of the Swamp
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
http://sports.yahoo.com
[email protected]
In a message dated 2/23/02 3:16:57 PM, SandraDodd@... writes:
<< The way yahoogroups works is anybody can join any and every group. And
when
you've joined you can see the list and you can get the e-mail, which comes
from addresses, and there they are. >>
That's not true. I had a brain-belch.
You can join the groups which are lying out there open to join. It's
possible to set groups up as closed or invitation only or secret or whatever.
<< The way yahoogroups works is anybody can join any and every group. And
when
you've joined you can see the list and you can get the e-mail, which comes
from addresses, and there they are. >>
That's not true. I had a brain-belch.
You can join the groups which are lying out there open to join. It's
possible to set groups up as closed or invitation only or secret or whatever.