Rosalie B. wrote:
x-no-archive:yes Glenn Ashmore wrote:


It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.


That doesn't help me because the blasted blocker just fills my mailbox
up with spam and won't empty for 14 days.

How do you get it to work like that?

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.
--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:02:27 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote:

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.

I don't know if this will be a help to you, but I'm using Mailfilter to
delete unwanted trash before downloading. It's a *nix program, but
reportedly works with Windows, although I can't say how easily. It saved
me. My poor dial-up was barely keeping up with the onslaught.

http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

I suspect newgroup posters are seeing the worst of it. The worm knows
how to attach to NNTP servers and search for email addresses. I've
learned my lesson, as you can see from my email address above.
--

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:53:04 +0000, Marc Auslander wrote:

I suspect newgroup posters are seeing the worst of it. The worm knows
how to attach to NNTP servers and search for email addresses. I've
learned my lesson, as you can see from my email address above.

Me too. Spam was never a real bother, as I could filter it after it was
downloaded, but this, 200-300 per day at 150K per . . . was quite the PITA.

I knew it was a virus but my Norton didn't detect it. I copy the file to a
test computer and the Norton there didn't detected it neither.( Corporate
edition version 8 UP TO DATE IN THE DEFINITIONS)
At the beginning I didn't notice what it was doing, until the second reboot
when the norton crashed, for the next days I received the mail errors.
I cleaned the machine following some instructions before doing the Symantec
fix and the fix didn't deleted all the virus files and scanned the computer
again and the norton didn't detected it ( I knew there was a file with the
virus) Used the "Panda antivirus" online and it found the file and deleted
it. Then installed ZoneAlarm and that program renames the virus file before
getting in to my inbox.



thunder wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:02:27 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote:

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.

I don't know if this will be a help to you, but I'm using Mailfilter to
delete unwanted trash before downloading. It's a *nix program, but
reportedly works with Windows, although I can't say how easily. It saved
me. My poor dial-up was barely keeping up with the onslaught.

http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

Glenn Ashmore wrote:

..... Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.
--

I advocate a 3¢ tax on every email sent, with 2¢ to the ISP for
collecting it and the rest to improve sailboat anchorages. It wouldn't
cost any of us enough to matter but it'd put the million spam/day
companies out of business fast.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:47:57 -0400, Vito wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:

..... Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.
--

I advocate a 3¢ tax on every email sent, with 2¢ to the ISP for
collecting it and the rest to improve sailboat anchorages. It wouldn't
cost any of us enough to matter but it'd put the million spam/day
companies out of business fast.

Good idea. Except I would make the proceeds to subsidize homely
semi-retired boatwrights.

The thing I did not understand is where the money comes from for the
spammers. In other words, do people actually bite on spam?

A possible answer was provided using the illustration of the mortgage
or insurance spam you have probably received. The spammer sends out a
million spams a day---a tiny, tiny percentage reply, thus confirming
they want more information on insurances or mortgage rates. These hot
leads are then sold to insurance or mortgage companies for $20 a
piece.

Several of these a day and it's a living. Never mind that you had to
pollute the 'net with a million unanswered spams. That's someone
else's problem.

I've been around for a while; long enough to have seen the original
Cantor and Spiegel "green card lottery" newsgroup spam. People used to
say just ignore them; you can't any more. It takes work to wade
through them. Unfortunately, I don't think it will slow down until
there are laws in place to send these jerks up the river for 30 years.

And why not? Someone that steals a car can go to jail for a
significant time. Someone that releases viruses is causing thousands,
millions of times more damage.

Just because these guys are typically young middle class white boys
with bad haircuts should not exempt them from paying a price.

Vito wrote:

I advocate a 3¢ tax on every email sent, with 2¢ to the ISP for
collecting it and the rest to improve sailboat anchorages. It wouldn't
cost any of us enough to matter but it'd put the million spam/day
companies out of business fast.


OK...I'll go along with that. But only if I get to hold the money. Or,
should I say, have it sent to an off-shore account that I control. You
know, somewhere outside of the control of the US IRS in a bank that pays
interest, Nigeria sounds good. :-)

--
Brandy-and-water spoils two good things.
-- Charles Lamb