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May 6, 2004
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New list member -- getting lots of SPAM

  • May 6, 2004
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Guess I have to make this 1st line different.... How's that ??

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    ptc-3537511-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    May 6, 2004
    Lots of responses already and many people say "yes, they're getting spam
    (as a result)" and many say "no spam from this list". I hate results like
    that 🙂

    We'll see how it goes. As I said, up until I signed up, I rec'd literally
    ZERO spam each day.

    Regards
    Hall





    rseys@mico.com
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    My company does not have a spam filter. Since I began posting on the
    Exploder, I have been inundated with spam. With every post I make it seems
    the spam increases in fervor. It is a great inconvenience, but something I
    have just accepted as one of the costs of using the Exploder service. The
    first few minutes of every day are spent deleting around 50-80 junk
    e-mails. During the working day, at least half of my e-mails are spam.

    Randy Seys
    MICO, Inc.
    North Mankato, MN
    rseys@mico.com




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    05/06/2004 07:36 AM

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    DStevenson











    Guess I have to make this 1st line different.... How's that ??
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    bparrish8-Gravel
    8-Gravel
    May 6, 2004
    This is one of four groups that I'am enrolled in with Pro/User and have
    seen no increase in SPAM. I enrolled only six weeks ago.

    Brian
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    rsnider1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 6, 2004
    Howdy all-

    I thought I would chime in here. I'm not sure why you would receive
    spam, but it wouldn't have come from the ptcuser.org site. Our lists
    are confidential and we don't sell, rent or otherwise distribute e-mail
    addresses. Unless someone happened to break into our system, it
    wouldn't be possible to get it from our server.

    However, once you do post, your mail goes out to potentially thousands
    of other people, all receiving your e-mail address. Depending on what
    happens there, it is very possible that a spambot is out there
    harvesting your address. Don't forget also that anyone who gets a
    virus these days could inadvertently send your e-mail address to places
    you don't expect. How many of you have seen your e-mail address
    "spoofed" by a virus that someone else sent when there system got
    infected? I've had that happen many times, in fact, everytime there is
    a new major infection on the 'net.

    I've looked at some alternatives such as a bulletin board system as
    opposed to an exploder, but that would cut off a lot of folks that
    don't have web access at work. (Some bulletin board let you read
    messages via e-mail but I haven't seen one that lets you post messages
    via e-mail to a bulletin board.) The other alternative would be to
    anonymize all contributions (strip the e-mail address) but that would
    mean you could not get direct replies from respondents, and that every
    reply to a posting would have to necessarily go to the entire list. A
    lot of people don't like that since the "netiquette" is to have the
    originator post a summary of all responses instead of getting 10-15
    responses on the exploder.

    A while back, I stripped out all of the e-mail addresses wherever I
    found them in the old archives...these are the files going back several
    years on the exploder. That should have stopped any potential
    harvesting from that source. The new system requires a login to access
    the e-mail lists...this is normally beyond the capabilities of the
    address harvesting software out there so it should prevent problems
    there.

    My own address probably receives the most circulation due to the number
    of posts I make, but I don't believe most of the spam I get is from the
    list. I don't know how but I have other e-mail addresses (non
    work-related) that have never been used with this list or any other,
    and somehow the address still ended up on a spammer list. Go figure.

    The best solution is to have a good spam filter on your e-mail client,
    preferably something that puts all filtered messages into a folder you
    can access to periodically check for e-mail that was improperly flagged
    as junk. Some corporate spam filters are way too aggressive that they
    throw out the baby with the bath water and you end up losing a lot of
    important mail (and they don't bother to tell you that the mail was
    bounced or deleted either).

    Regards,
    Rick
    ==

    Rick Snider
    Executive Director, PTC/USER
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    unknown11-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 6, 2004
    I think you need to ask your IT department if anything changed on your
    companies end as far as the type of firewall? I used to get tons of spam
    until our company upgraded to a different firewall. I don't think the
    PTCUSER has anything to do with it this is a non-profit organization.
    Chris
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    steve_jones1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 6, 2004
    All together now...

    "Spam, spam, spam...wonderful spam...."
    "SHUT UP!!!!...bloody Vikings"

    With respects to Monty Python

    Yeah, yeah...I know, but I couldn't resist.
    SteveJ
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