[TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails

  • From: "Phillip R. Hull" <phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:26:35 -0500

If you unsubscribe it just tells them the E-mail address is good and you may
get even more mail.
Phillip R Hull     STET
phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
FAX 517--569-3075
Professional Technicians only
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D Thunhurst" <dthunhurst@xxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:48 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails


> OK Doug.  What do you suggest on how we stop them coming to our mail box?
I
> am getting 400 to 500 e-mails a day and I think I am safe in saying that
> over 90% of them are junk.  Last weekend I unsubscribe from over 300 of
> them.  So far I don't see any change.  A few months back I did the same
> thing for over 500 of them. About a month latter the flow did cut to about
> half of that.  Some of those rascals don't even use the remove links or
they
> use bogus links.
> Daryl
> Daryl's TV
> 2402 Wyoming Ave.
> El Paso, TX 79903
> 915-565-9184 Voice/Fax
> dthunhurst@xxxxxxx
> www.angelfire.com/tv2/daryls_tv
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Keller" <dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:04 AM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails
>
>
> > Don't EVER click that unsubscribe link!!! They never work. All they do
> > is verify that your email address is a valid address so they can resell
> > to other spammers.
> >
> > Doug Keller
> > Wis-Kel Electronics
> > 101 Freeland Ave.
> > Terra Alta, WV
> > USA        26764
> > dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.tech-assist.org
> > "Learn from the mistakes of others, because you
> > won't live long enough to make them all yourself"
> >
> >
> >
> > albert walfield wrote:
> >
> > >Yes I and my young daughter been getting these too on our computers
keep
> > >blocking the senders and unsubscribing but they keep changing their
email
> > >address enough to get passed the blocker.They got us at our wits end.
> > >Anybody know anything about a program called mailwasher and will it
work
> for
> > >this problem?
> > >
> > >Albert Walfield
> > >
> > >Albert Walfield's Electronics
> > >28 Mulock Rd.
> > >RR#3
> > >Bridgewater
> > >Nova Scotia
> > >CANADA
> > >B4V 2W2
> > >Phone/Fax 902 543-9831
> > >Email : albertwalfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Kevin" <kevintv@xxxxxxx>
> > >To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:25 PM
> > >Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Those are for Viagra, breast enlargements and health food supplements.
> > >>They get your email address somehow and bypass your junk mail filter
by
> > >>adding extra letters that fool the junk mail filter.
> > >>
> > >>Kevin Wilks
> > >>Kevin's TV & Video Repair
> > >>Penticton BC Canada
> > >>kevintv@xxxxxxx
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of larry
> > >>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:07 PM
> > >>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails
> > >>
> > >>i am running 2 virus scans and now and then it catches an
> > >>email virus attachment, which i never open anyway.
> > >>but i have been getting email not addressed to me.
> > >>and it looks like advertisements, maybe prescription drugs,
> > >>but looks foreign language.
> > >>dont know where they are coming from.
> > >>or why i am getting them.
> > >>Larry
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Kevin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Has anybody been receiving emails that you did not send and "come
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>back"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>to you as "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)"?  I have received
2
> > >>>in the last few days and they always have attachments.  The last one
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>was
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>from george@endwave dot com.  I have been just deleting them as I
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>never
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>open any attachments when I don't who they are from.
> > >>>
> > >>>Kevin Wilks
> > >>>Kevin's TV & Video Repair
> > >>>Penticton BC Canada
> > >>>kevintv@xxxxxxx
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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> > >>Schneider TV & Electronic Inc.
> > >>5415 N. Wooster ave.
> > >>Dover, Ohio 44622       www.geocities.com/schntv2000/
> > >>330-343-0768         FCC. first class & Extra class K8WLY
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