RE: [APML] OT: porm spam flood

["Greg Hartke" <ghartke@adelphia.net>]

I tend to doubt it's tied to this list, though obviously I could be wrong. I
haven't received any spam in quite some time despite being on APML for
years.

I had a minor spam problem for a while. I followed the advice of those on
this list and installed SpyBot Search and Destroy, PanicWare pop-up blocker,
and SpamPal. These are all free-ware and work excellently. I was quite
pleased with SpamPal. It caught virtually everything making it easy to
delete the mess en masse.

That said, my minor spam problem (minor compared to some of the horror
stories I've heard here) went away totally when I changed ISPs, hence
eddresses. It seems someone was using a long defunct eddress of mine for
nefarious purposes. The forwarding had never been halted, though it should
have been. It actually took some effort to get that turned off but once I
did the spam disappeared completely and hasn't returned.

Short of changing eddresses, I doubt there's much to be done except
utilizing something like SpamPal to catch it for you.

Greg Hartke
Sykesville, MD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Bradley Hope
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: Re: [APML] OT: porm spam flood
>
> I haven't seen anything about that email addy, Scott, so I don't know.
>
> Near as I can tell, based on how the mail is addressed to me, it would
> appear someone is either on this list and harvesting addy's, or they got
> into the archive (if there is one) to get them. It got really bad
> starting a couple of days ago, and this is the only place I've been using
> this addy for the last three weeks or so.
>
> The anti-spam legislation sounds like a good thing..but it isn't really
> going to help all that much, all they need do is source it out of the
> country.
>
> Bradley


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