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I think our situations are different, but I had the same problem about a month ago. Out of the blue, I started getting vast amounts of junk.
I run MS Exchange from home, and it turns out that it had something called ForeFront running alongside it which acts as a spam filter, but that was only a 90 day trial. End of trial and it turned off.
That product seemed very good at sorting it all out, the caveats being you need to run Exchange, and also I think MS have abandoned it now. I'm looking for a solution to.
Actually, it would be a very easy thing to code up, if only you could plug your own spam filter in somehow.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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It would be nice if Outlook would let me set a rule to block entire domains, but I've tried it a few times with wildcard characters for host names ( ie, *.ru ) and it doesn't work. It seems that there are no longer any standards for TLDs these days,too, since all of this new crap is coming from domains that never existed before, like .party, .science, .xyz and such. Since no legitimate email has ever used such an address, being able to block entire domains would be very handy. Grrrr...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Most effective anti-spam product is deletion of email accounts. Often not an option. Spammers keep evolving their signatures so as to last longer whilst they wares are determined to be spam. How else to manage it, then?
I use a domain catchall to forward all of my mail. Everyone I do any kind of business with has a different email address for me. If I start to get spammed, I know who sold me out because, essentially, their name is on it. I create a genuine forward for that email back to them and problem is solved.
Example: you buy bozo.org. Create a catchall account and forward them all to a nice new clean location that is not being spammed (as it's new). If you do business with Amazaon, the use amazon@bozo.org; similarly newegg@bozo.org, etc.
In addition, I never give out the real email target to anyone (not even family) as it makes it simple if I wish to change my account: change my various forwards and I don't have to bother updating anyone else.
Nothing's 100% effective in that some spam generators use randomly generated addresses and simply hope for any number of hits. It's worked well for over a decade.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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but it ended up at Stack Overflow.
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Here![^]
FTFY!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Could you repeat that?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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but you'd think I was quackers.
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but you'd think I was Goofy.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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New Horizons found your joke, but it was billions of km away.
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..but it's a bit close to the bone
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I was expecting something more humerus.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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but the instructor said I rub everyone the wrong way.
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I'm sorry, I'll feel that again.
(The great Peter Cook).
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...it will blow you away!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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...but it's all washed up.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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. . . but it wasn't funny.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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but it turns out that you don't write jokes about fight club.
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That sounds like a meme...
"One doesn't simply write jokes about fight club"
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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One does not simply mock Boromir.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No one sacrifices Boromir on my watch
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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You have a picture of Boromir on your Apple watch?
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He's too old, and his tits are too big... Now get the f^ck off my porch fat man...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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