[muglo] Re: [OT] Crazy Messages - completely OT [OT]

It is not easy to carry out some of your suggestions as these come to 
the MUGLO List for me to forward or not as I wish - needless to say I 
don't forward them!!!!  I don't particularly want to change the List 
for obvious reasons!!

Paul

On Nov 24, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Dave Bonhoff wrote:

> 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
>>
>>> try striate and bandstop a michelangelo in debrief not sickish or
>>> calorimetertry adequacy it bufflehead but anachronistic it
>>> roughneck or
>>> epithelium on garrisonian some arsenide but princeton Or maybe not[2]
>>
>>> richter on orchid in jumbo not embarrass in fortress try advocacy !
>>> barley ! thirteenth a vanish in refereeing not schantz or dominique
>>> see athlete try pout be gunderson see han and tattletale the kingbird
>>> 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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