Good Morning: One of the things we all seem to have in common is the want to eliminate SPAM from our daily mailboxes. For the past couple of weeks I have been testing a new system and am pleased to announce that it works! My SPAM has gone from 25 to 30 a day down to 1 or 2, and I never have to see even them. Check out the following address for details: http://www.mailwasher.net/ Be sure to print out or read the FAQ section of the web site. All the details of the program are there. This program only works for POP3 Mail, but that is probably what most of you are using. The neat thing about this program is that is rejects incoming SPAM, sends a bounce message to the sender, and then deletes the message from your server. All of this is done without downloading any of the message into your system. It took about a week before I noticed a big reduction in my incoming. It is very easy to use as your primary incoming mail system and it works in conjunction with your current mail program. The program is free or can be supported with a small donation to the author if you wish. Their web site and FAQ page should answer any questions you may have. If you have any further questions about the system, drop me a line and I will see what I can do to help. 73...George
Hi George, I have been using Mailwasher now for about 4 months and I love it. It hasn't stopped the plethora emails of the Nigerian persuasion, but I believe it has considerably reduced the number that I receive. What I really like about Mailwasher is the ability to view what mail is sitting in my account at my ISP without having to download it, then being able to bounce or delete them before downloading them to my email program. I like it. 73 Joel W5ZN ----- Original Message ----- From: George Race <wb8bgy@arrl.org> To: Arrl-Odv@P1k. Arrl. Org <arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7041] Email SPAM
Good Morning:
One of the things we all seem to have in common is the want to eliminate SPAM from our daily mailboxes. For the past couple of weeks I have been testing a new system and am pleased to announce that it works! My SPAM has gone from 25 to 30 a day down to 1 or 2, and I never have to see even them.
Check out the following address for details: http://www.mailwasher.net/ Be sure to print out or read the FAQ section of the web site. All the details of the program are there.
This program only works for POP3 Mail, but that is probably what most of you are using. The neat thing about this program is that is rejects incoming SPAM, sends a bounce message to the sender, and then deletes the message from your server. All of this is done without downloading any of the message into your system. It took about a week before I noticed a big reduction in my incoming. It is very easy to use as your primary incoming mail system and it works in conjunction with your current mail program. The program is free or can be supported with a small donation to the author if you wish.
Their web site and FAQ page should answer any questions you may have. If you have any further questions about the system, drop me a line and I will see what I can do to help.
73...George
Hi Joel: Yes, I love that feature! Gives me a chance to delete stuff before I waste time downloading it. Is especially good for those huge newsletters that you can't ever seem to download. You know, the ones that are 2.5 Meg and come as PDF files. One of the biggest advantage is having the program "bounce" messages as undeliverable. Eventually this leads to having your address removed from the many email address lists that are being circulated, sold, and traded. 73...George -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:wb5igf@ipa.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:18 AM To: arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7042] Re: Email SPAM Hi George, What I really like about Mailwasher is the ability to view what mail is sitting in my account at my ISP without having to download it, then being able to bounce or delete them before downloading them to my email program. I like it. 73 Joel W5ZN
George et al, My ISP provides the same features and I get zero SPAM except for the Nigerian Opportunities. They must be slick at ducking the SPAM filters. All of these come through arrl.org. I suspect they have a web crawler that picks up e-mail addresses from web sites. I understand there is a way to mask your e-mail address on a web site to keep these web crawlers from picking them up. Anyone have any information on such a technique? Coy ----- Original Message ----- From: George Race <wb8bgy@arrl.org> To: <arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:00 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7043] Re: Email SPAM Hi Joel: Yes, I love that feature! Gives me a chance to delete stuff before I waste time downloading it. Is especially good for those huge newsletters that you can't ever seem to download. You know, the ones that are 2.5 Meg and come as PDF files. One of the biggest advantage is having the program "bounce" messages as undeliverable. Eventually this leads to having your address removed from the many email address lists that are being circulated, sold, and traded. 73...George -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:wb5igf@ipa.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:18 AM To: arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7042] Re: Email SPAM Hi George, What I really like about Mailwasher is the ability to view what mail is sitting in my account at my ISP without having to download it, then being able to bounce or delete them before downloading them to my email program. I like it. 73 Joel W5ZN
Hi Coy: The only one I know of is from http://www.atompark.com Their program will keep the email harvesting robots from finding your email addresses on a web site. The program to download is TagsLock Free. The TagsLock Pro version costs money and does more stuff. TagsLock Free is all you need to keep the harvesters away from your web site. 73...George -----Original Message----- From: Coy Day [mailto:n5ok.ok@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:36 AM To: arrl-odv@arrl.org Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7044] Re: Email SPAM George et al, My ISP provides the same features and I get zero SPAM except for the Nigerian Opportunities. They must be slick at ducking the SPAM filters. All of these come through arrl.org. I suspect they have a web crawler that picks up e-mail addresses from web sites. I understand there is a way to mask your e-mail address on a web site to keep these web crawlers from picking them up. Anyone have any information on such a technique? Coy
----- Original Message ----- From: Coy Day <n5ok.ok@worldnet.att.net> To: <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:36 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7044] Re: Email SPAM
I understand there is a way to mask your e-mail address on a web site to keep these web crawlers from picking them up. Anyone have any information on such a technique?
Coy, The NCJ of a couple issues back (sorry, just back from Phoenix and too lazy to look up the exact reference....) gave details on some lines of html you can add to your website to apparently wreak a bit of havoc on the address harvesters. Maybe someone has the article reference at hand? I haven't yet tried it out on my website, so can't speak to its effectiveness. So far, I've relied on the DELETE key but George's info and your inquiry have me thinking about going more proactive. 73 Bruce
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