[muglo] Re: [OT] Crazy Messages - completely OT [OT]
- From: Dave Bonhoff <gtidave@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:40:55 -0500
That would be called spam. It may contain an image that is tagged to
you email address. And it could be 1 white pixel which you'd
normally never notice. When your mail program downloads that image,
you have verified that your email address is in use. The spammer can
now sell your info for more $, and usually within 24 hours your
volume of spam will increase. The only things you can do are:
put up with the spam
hope you ISP can take the abuse and filter it (getting to be a big
problem)
set you mail program or spam filter to recognize this as spam and
filter it on your end
drop your email account
It is wise to set you email program to _not_ download images. I'm
going to ask my ISP for a discount as I only have Mac's on my
network, all with their firewalls turned on, plus a decent firewall
on my router, plus a firewall on my DSL modem. This is serious
overkill, but it was fun getting it configured correctly, and none of
my machines are zombies... Knock on wood! [;^)
Good Luck.
Dave
On 24-Nov-05, at 10:09, Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>
> I know that this is COMPLETELY OT but curious to know if anyone else
> gets these type of messages and do they have some cryptic message
> embedded in them? I have tried to find something!!
>
> Paul
>
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>> roughneck or
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>
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>> and guffaw or lessen but moustache but corroboree a beast but
>> infrastructure ! a benedikt on salient try
>> but cane but amphibology see
>
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