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Article #68955Re: What's a spamblock
From: The Pacifist
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:00
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And it sounds like this: <plonk> The Pacifist King of Cyberia wrote in message ... >I just got back from saving the world from aliens, when I overheard >Da' Follower remarking on Oct 31... > >>Someone explain to me what on earth a spamblock is, what the point of one >>is, and how I use/get/make/create one >Well I see you are using Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 > >First go to the Tools menu, and go down to Accounts near the bottom. >When clicked, the Internet Accounts menu should open on the Mail tab (the >third one). >Then click on the "Da' Follower" account which you obviously did before, >and go down to your email. Add something NOT part of your address, like >"nospam." with the period. > >Now the reason: >A spamblock is just that. It prevents mass-mailing and address collecting >software used by spammers from reaching you. When spam goes out to my >address, which has GEEK in the hawaii.edu part, it will bounce back to the >spammer. Thus only if the GEEK is removed will anything reach me. > >I don't think that software knows how to remove spamblocks (yet), but to >be sure, I would recommend changing it every few months. > >You can also add a fake Reply-to address like me, but that's also >optional. > >Do they work? Yes!! The messages in my box don't change a lot from day to >day, and only if I email someone first and they reply. > >-- >Thank you. > >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >Designation: King Gary C Li >Post: Cyberia, Tkon Empire >Role: Unofficial AGD3D spamhunter, > Troubleshooter, Beta tester, > Gameplay counselor >TREKnology www2.hawaii.edu/~gli/startrek.html >IP Address Finder >http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html >================================= > >
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From: "The Pacifist" <ne...@pacifist.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: What's a spamblock Date: 1999/10/31 Message-ID: <7vhmok$8k0$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 542748255 References: <7vh6f3$ot1$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910310115010.5282-100000@uhunix3> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: ab...@theplanet.net X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 941383252 8832 62.136.70.139 (31 Oct 1999 15:20:52 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 1999 15:20:52 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.duke3d MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit