Author: margolies,marc
Date: 11:34:58 09/19/03
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First, I am sorry to hear about your problem. Second, your post is germane--not off-topic here-- because you are an elected official of this organ and messages from other posters might lead us to conclude that some of us are subject to spam attack because of their positions here, therefore an attack on all of us. Finally, I have heard quite a bit about software for enterprises and individuals who suffer your fate. These are a form of mail gateway that requires an additional response from the sender as validation that the original post is not merely machine generated. ( I do not use one myself.) one of my correspondents mail to me always ends in this... <snip> ---------------------------------------------------- This mailbox protected from junk email by Matador from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com <snip> best regards, marc On September 19, 2003 at 14:18:26, Mike Byrne wrote: >I am now getting about 50 spam/returned emails every hour. They quickly throw >me over the limit as most of them contain an attachment of about 150K that has a >virus. My spam filter throws them in the spam folder - and there is simply too >many of them for me to see which ones are perhaps legitmate. So if you sendf an >email it may be returned witha note that my mail box is full. > >Appantly my e-mail address is being spoof by a spammer - that is why I am >getting so many returned emails. Rest assured I am not spamming anyone or >sending out email with viruses - but I'm not sure what to do about this problem >sort of cancelling my email address and starting over. > >Any suggestions?
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