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Bulk Folder woes... CJofVP 05-17-2006
---> Re: Bulk Folder woes... Beauregard T. S...05-17-2006
Posted by CJofVP on May 17, 2006, 12:39 pm
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Lastnight, I cleaned out OE ( I use it to post here) and both my http://
based webmail accounts I have - to include their bulk folders. This morning
I get up and there were already 48 items in my ISP Bulk folder w/
attachments all 180K in size from some trojan bot named Bhu** something or
other. ** indicates a range between a and z, 0 thru 9.

Since I notice alot of you use bogus reply to email lines in the headers of
your posts, and I'd love to know how you do this -- and two...if this is an
effective solution to deal with chitloads of Spam I seem to get.





Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 17, 2006, 1:04 pm
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CJofVP wrote:

> Since I notice alot of you use bogus reply to email lines in the
> headers of your posts, and I'd love to know how you do this -- and
> two...if this is an effective solution to deal with chitloads of Spam
> I seem to get.

OE: Tools > Accounts > News
Select your news account
Click Properties
Change the email ID to:

this.is.a.fake@example.invalid

Click OK, Click Close

The domain "example" is reserved for .. well .. examples. The TLD (Top
Level Domain) "invalid" is used to prevent all conforming mail servers
to not bother to even try to send an email.

Since your ID is already harvested, it is toast. Get yourself a new one,
not easily guessable, and guard it with your life.


Sidebar:
Q: "Why does my PC run so slow when I connect to the interweb?"
A1: "Because it is relaying hundreds of spam emails every minute."
A2: "Because it is sending virus-laden emails to everyone in your
address book."

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Posted by CJofVP on May 17, 2006, 1:39 pm
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I'll experiment with it. Thanks for the reply.

> CJofVP wrote:
>
>> Since I notice alot of you use bogus reply to email lines in the
>> headers of your posts, and I'd love to know how you do this -- and
>> two...if this is an effective solution to deal with chitloads of Spam
>> I seem to get.
>
> OE: Tools > Accounts > News
> Select your news account
> Click Properties
> Change the email ID to:
>
> this.is.a.fake@example.invalid
>
> Click OK, Click Close
>
> The domain "example" is reserved for .. well .. examples. The TLD (Top
> Level Domain) "invalid" is used to prevent all conforming mail servers
> to not bother to even try to send an email.
>
> Since your ID is already harvested, it is toast. Get yourself a new one,
> not easily guessable, and guard it with your life.
>
>
> Sidebar:
> Q: "Why does my PC run so slow when I connect to the interweb?"
> A1: "Because it is relaying hundreds of spam emails every minute."
> A2: "Because it is sending virus-laden emails to everyone in your
> address book."
>
> --
> -bts
> -Warning: I brake for lawn deer



Posted by C J. on May 17, 2006, 1:56 pm
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I take it this is what you had in mind.
> CJofVP wrote:
>
>> Since I notice alot of you use bogus reply to email lines in the
>> headers of your posts, and I'd love to know how you do this -- and
>> two...if this is an effective solution to deal with chitloads of Spam
>> I seem to get.
>
> OE: Tools > Accounts > News
> Select your news account
> Click Properties
> Change the email ID to:
>
> this.is.a.fake@example.invalid
>
> Click OK, Click Close
>
> The domain "example" is reserved for .. well .. examples. The TLD (Top
> Level Domain) "invalid" is used to prevent all conforming mail servers
> to not bother to even try to send an email.
>
> Since your ID is already harvested, it is toast. Get yourself a new one,
> not easily guessable, and guard it with your life.
>
>
> Sidebar:
> Q: "Why does my PC run so slow when I connect to the interweb?"
> A1: "Because it is relaying hundreds of spam emails every minute."
> A2: "Because it is sending virus-laden emails to everyone in your
> address book."
>
> --
> -bts
> -Warning: I brake for lawn deer



Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 17, 2006, 2:17 pm
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C J. wrote:

> I take it this is what you had in mind.


Yes, pretty much so.

Sidenote: why is it whenever I post the suggestion to use the munged
domain name "example" in the literal sense, almost everyone uses
something else? Like "html". The domains example.com/net/org have been
set aside to use for these kinds of functions.

"html.com" and .net and .org are all owned by somebody. Each time
someone uses a valid name (even with an invalid TLD) the chances are
increased that a spammer will use the domain and suffix it with all
known TLDs.

Change it to: no.reply@example.invalid <-- exactly like this

Please consider not top-posting on Usenet.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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