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Email acrobatics: juggling multiple addresses review
Reviews Owning a wide variety of email addresses is a handy trick to have up your sleeve. The downside, however, is that you'll have to do some up-front work to set up the domains and the email addresses. Luckily, it's surprisingly easy and affordable to...
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
Fool spammers with multiple email addresses
Talkback The author is talking about "Disposable Email Addresses". DEA services have been provided for a long time - do a google search on sneakemail, spamgourmet, and spamex.
[January 11, 2004, 1:01]
'Wacky' email addresses deter HR managers
News Job applicants who use 'wacky' email addresses are far less likely to get the job according to research that polled UK human resources managers. He said: "Applicants with wacky email addresses may stand out from the crowd but probably to their...
[April 15, 2003, 11:26]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
News Many spammers are including illicit code in their unsolicited mail to help them detect active email addresses, a security firm warned on Tuesday. This information is then relayed back to the spammer, telling them that certain email addresses are in...
[April 14, 2004, 17:40]
AOL worker 'sold email addresses to spammers'
Talkback I can live with additional Email but my children have there own accounts. They answered that they do not give out anyones email address. As an AOL customer, this story worried me. I asked AOL if they can gurantee that they would not receive any...
[June 28, 2004, 20:46]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback You would need a product which deactivates the html coding in any spam message received. Spamnix, for Eudora, has that capability.
[April 14, 2004, 18:17]
AOL worker 'sold email addresses to spammers'
Talkback I am a real estate broker and apraiser. About 2 years ago the locl board of Realtors and a GE company requested my emai address in case "they needed to update the lock box key" About 6 months ago another broker (who went to the mandatory meeting...
[August 10, 2004, 16:24]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback I am wondering how a person can tell if they have this "bug" on their computer. I am receiving tonnes of spam, spoke to ISP and they put on a filtering system that lasted under a week. Upon talking to someone else it would seem that we are both of...
[April 14, 2004, 18:04]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback Unfortunately, Earthlink 5.0 views the last message received in, making me vulnerable to these spam email bugs you mentioned. Tech support informed me the only way to delete an email you do not want to open/preview is to highlight the one above or...
[April 17, 2004, 13:31]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback Xuppa.com is a free web-based email host. By default they turn off html, but at the bottom of each email message you have the option of viewing images by clicking on that option. Also, Xuppa is one of the more generous email hosts out there...
[April 15, 2004, 19:37]
AOL worker 'sold email addresses to spammers'
Talkback Wow. Big deal. While the US authorities bust about one spammer per month on average, the international e-mail system continues to collapse under the massive weight of American spam. Nothing* serious is being done about it.
[June 24, 2004, 18:17]
Fool spammers with multiple email addresses
Talkback This uses up internet bandwidth, and even more so as you now have multiple addresses to spam and not just one single address, so you'll receive multiple copies of the same spam! The best way to not receive spam is not to publish your email address...
[December 16, 2003, 10:14]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback Mozilla mail 'sanitises' the HTML of items it thinks are spam using its Bayesian filters, but I don't think it goes as far as the AOL protection where all unknown addresses are sanitised. AOL 9.0 deactivates images and HTML in emails from people...
[April 15, 2004, 10:18]
Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Talkback it is as simple as having an image embedded in the email. This is as old as html email itslef. Disable preview of mail or use a simple text only email client The image source is requested back to a server that tracks these request, which contain...
[April 14, 2004, 20:16]
Fool spammers with multiple email addresses
Talkback Readers in the UK can get a free email domain like this from freeserve, which is what I do.abdulhaq I already do this and it works very well.
[December 12, 2003, 15:24]
Fool spammers with multiple email addresses
Talkback I do this, and it works well.
[December 12, 2003, 15:47]
Fighting Spam by Encapsulating Policy in Email Addresses
White Papers Everyday network interactions require users to give out their email address, yet no guarantees can be made about how this address will be used. Unfortunately, that email address frequently finds itself in spammers' lists, never to be removed again.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Spam swamping SMEs
News Smaller businesses, and companies that publish their employees' email addresses on the Web, are far more likely to be swamped with spam, according to a new study. Companies with 100 email addresses or fewer received up to 10 times more spam per...
[January 27, 2005, 9:00]
EBay restricts email access
News EBay plans to block members from being able to look up each others' email addresses on the site, making it harder to spam members -- and also harder for people to cut the online auction house out of a deal.
[February 1, 2001, 13:27]
A Year Ago: Hijackers lay traps for errant emails
News Look-alike addresses steal email from careless senders A convenience of the Internet makes this easy to do: Most firms and organisations run their email systems from the same addresses they use for their Web sites.
[November 9, 2000, 6:01]
