Mark,
I'm not an expert on email server applications, but I'm in tech and have
been following this
issue some.
Short answer: the spam is not coming from the Healey List. The List is
a "closed" system; you
have to be subscribed in order to send and receive messages to/from the
List server. The
spammers either haven't figured out how to automate subscribing, or
haven't bothered (yet).
The spam is almost certainly coming through your ISP via various lists
that are acquired,
bought and sold, or otherwise promulgated throughout the spammers'
community. There
has been a significant uptick in spam in the last few months, as the
spammers are using more
sophisticated "bots" to surf through email servers and acquire valid
email addresses, and
"zombie" computers to proliferate the messages. Unfortunately, you're
on a few lists.
The following article is pretty informative (I think you have to be a
subscriber to NY Times
online, but registration is free and they've never spammed me):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?hp&ex=1168232400&en=60c6afb90ec2af68&ei=5094&partner=homepage
If the link doesn't work, the article was still on the home page this
morning.
Unfortunately, this problem is going to get worse before it gets better
(if it DOES get better :( )
Your ISP should have spam/malware filtering software and/or some
hardware to detect and
eliminate this crap (companies like Fortinet, Barracuda and others make
dedicated hardware
to trap spam). My ISP, Comcast, is doing a pretty good job filtering
spam. Some of what gets
through gets zapped by my Thunderbird email client, but I still have to
delete an occasional spam
message. My work email server is not protected and I probably get
50-100 spam messages a
day from it. Sounds like your ISP needs to get hardware and software to
help eliminate spam.
BTW, most of the medications advertised by spammers is fake (so I'm
told ;). But, occasionally
the spammers are able to pump-and-dump penny stocks at a profit by
bombing the Internet
with "hot stock tips." Me, I made my fortune from a nice guy in Nigeria
that needed some help ...
bs
mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net wrote:
> Just in the last couple of months the elicit emails that I have been getting
> has tripled. I spend much of my time "Block Sendering" these emails and have
> little time left to actually read the real Healey oriented mail. The Healey
> list is really my only outside source for emails that I have , next to a few
> personal acquaintances. (such a dull life I know).
>
> My questions to the savvy computer types on the list are,
>
> - Are these miscellaneous emails coming through the Healey list, or through
> my internet provider? Is their anything else I can do next to setting up
> Email Rules and having them deleted before they come through? That is a bit
> hit and miss cause the subject matter varies so much. Mostly weight loss and
> Viagra related, of which I have no problem either way, thank you very much.
> And some even come across in foreign languages that I can't even read.
>
> Thanks in advance, Mark
>
>
>
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