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Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Warren:
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Your provider may have something to do with your lack of SPAM (though I doubt it). Maybe you just have good karma .... I get my e-mail through a server at the University of Virginia, and I think they let almost everything through (perhaps in the misguided interest of "intellectual freedom"; that was their justification for not blocking Napster). Kind regards, Garth G. Groff ibs4421@... wrote: Since the e-Groups/Yahoo! merger, I probably belong to 20+ |
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ibs4421@...
Garth & Fellow Steamers,
I remember Garth posting on this earlier, and meant to post to him about it off-list: but now I'll post to the group since it is deemed worthy of discussion. In almost three years, off and on, on the web I have yet to get spammed. A great deal of that time has also been spent being connected to Yahoo! ( I am no big fan of Yahoo! either.) I have absolutely no idea why some of you are getting spammed, and I am not. I am very careful about where I post my e-mail address, and to who it is given. Since the e-Groups/Yahoo! merger, I probably belong to 20+ different groups, and have yet to recieve one piece of spam. I use a rather small, local, hometown ISP as opposed to some monstoer like AOL. Maybe that makes a difference, I don't know. Warren Dickinson Elkton, KY --- In STMFC@y..., "Garth G. Groff" <ggg9y@v...> wrote: Dear friends:increase in SPAM posts in my e-mail. Many, though not all, come from the domainsick of "make a million dollars" schemes, ads for ANIMAL HOUSE clonevideos, and solicitations for laser toner cartridges from Georgia (reputedto be a scam).domain "yahoogroups.com" which our group operates. Any thoughts on this?SPAM posters frequently change their addresses and their subject linesto sneak around any filters receivers may create. They also use falseprovided by my employer on a state-owned machine, I am not allowed to mountany unauthorized blocking software. |
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Ed Workman <eworkman@...>
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From: Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> To: STMFC@... <STMFC@...> Date: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [STMFC] SPAM posts I went into the Yahoogroups page as Bruce suggested, and was able toAs did I and found it already set as suggested, so micchief is afoot. Unfortunately, to work the Yahoo registration page, I had to give them aYes indeed!!! BIG BROTHER is alive and serving you |
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thompson@...
I have not noticed particularly many spam messages from yahoo domains.
Many are from "AOL" (usually spoof addresses, I understand) or from MSN (maybe spoofs also). But I feel sure the spammers are way ahead of most filtration schemes. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 http://www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroads and on Western history |
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Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Ed and Bruce:
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I went into the Yahoogroups page as Bruce suggested, and was able to reset the preferences. We shall see how well this works when I come back to work on Monday. Unfortunately, to work the Yahoo registration page, I had to give them a whole lot of personal information (I lied about some of it) just to move from screen to screen. What effect this will have I don't know, but I moved my birthday to February 29th and changed my sex in the process. In addition, I had to accept over 15 cookies, which I normally have blocked. I spent half an hour (of company time!) tracking them down and deleting same from my cache. Probably no harm done, unless I missed some. I suspect that the "disable cookies" fuction in Netscape does not actually work. Some cookies are no longer cookies at all, but have been redesigned to thwart local machine settings. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Ed Workman and Bruce Smith wrote: Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. ClickWRONG! There are apparently harvesters at work or YAHOO lies |
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Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...>
SPAM, unfortunately, is just a fact of life. Even more unfortunately,
many of the software providers (e.g. Netscape) are now owned by large companies (AOL-Time-Warner in the case of Netscape) who make a great deal of money from advertising. I have noticed recent versions of the Netscape web browser make it difficult to configure a "proxy" filter for advertising. (I use Siemen's Webwasher.) If I had a LOT more time I would compose my own filter software to automatically remove the crap from my yahoogroups emails... and more intelligent filters for general SPAM mail. Egroups and presumably Yahoogroups does prevent "spambots" from doing the harvesting of emails -- but this can be gotten around by creating phony subscriptions. I have spotted a few such subscriptions to the steamloco list and denied them access. But as they say at the CIA, every measure has a countermeasure. The battle rages on.... Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts |
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Ed Workman <eworkman@...>
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From: Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. <smithbf@...> Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. ClickWRONG! There are apparently harvesters at work or YAHOO lies |
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Ed Workman <eworkman@...>
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From: Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> To: STMFC@... <STMFC@...> Date: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:28 AM Subject: [STMFC] SPAM posts , I am thoroughly sick of "make a million dollars" schemes, ads forMe too, and I wonder why spammer scumbags who are obviously aware of the illegality of their behavior, think that anyone would patronize them?? Is the web sufficiently full of the terminally stupid as to afford any sort of income for these @3!!!&*$$ 's |
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Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Bruce,
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Thanks much. I will try this right now. I'm sure others will want to do this too. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff "Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D." wrote:
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Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. <smithbf@...>
Garth,
Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. Click on the link for "Account info". Under Member Information, hit edit and set your account to "do not send me any offers". That should fix the problem. Happy SPAM free Rails Bruce Dear friends:Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. Scott-Ritchey Research Center 334-844-5587, 334-844-5850 (fax) http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ____________________________________ |- ______/ O O \_______ -| | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ | ||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__|| |/_____________________________\|_|____________________________________| | O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O | 0-0-0 0-0-0 |
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Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Dear friends:
Since this group opened for business, I have noticed a great increase in SPAM posts in my e-mail. Many, though not all, come from the domain "yahoo.com". I believe this is the price we pay for a "free" group, especially since Yahoo took over Onelist. However, I am thoroughly sick of "make a million dollars" schemes, ads for ANIMAL HOUSE clone videos, and solicitations for laser toner cartridges from Georgia (reputed to be a scam). If this is a worthy topic to discuss here (it is related to the administration of our group), I would like to have other members thoughts on this. I am contemplating a filter which would block the "yahoo.com" domain, though I wonder if it would also affect the domain "yahoogroups.com" which our group operates. Any thoughts on this? I might add that a filter is only a partial solution to SPAM. Most SPAM posters frequently change their addresses and their subject lines to sneak around any filters receivers may create. They also use false addresses, which make direct requests to be removed impossible. Thanks in advance for the suggestions, but since my e-mail is provided by my employer on a state-owned machine, I am not allowed to mount any unauthorized blocking software. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff |
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BillD53A@...
Speaking of spam on yahoo I just got some porno email that came from an
address on yahoo. It got deleted along with anything else from anyone I dont know. |
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