tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post113370710226967288..comments2023-09-20T04:04:07.170-06:00Comments on A Few Choice Words: No intelligence requiredJenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16453489879246452921noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133842731898981592005-12-05T22:18:00.000-06:002005-12-05T22:18:00.000-06:00Oh! I just got the BEST subject line:Re: nostril...Oh! I just got the BEST subject line:<BR/><BR/><B>Re: nostril</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133755273349692662005-12-04T22:01:00.000-06:002005-12-04T22:01:00.000-06:00And here I was, annoyed after several spam-free ye...And here I was, annoyed after several spam-free years, now getting up to 2 spams <I>a day</I> in my bulk mail!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133753678128567712005-12-04T21:34:00.000-06:002005-12-04T21:34:00.000-06:00Well, I think that was about a day and a half. Thi...Well, I think that was about a day and a half. Thirty to fifty is about average for a 24-hour period.<BR/><BR/>I've not wanted to change my E-mail address because it has been given to people who would have no other way to contact us, and with whom we are no longer in touch.<BR/><BR/>But before we were savvy about such things, Alex used it to join a couple of mailing lists & discussion groups, which led to it being disclosed to many people in many places.<BR/><BR/>Too, it became semi-public when we registered our two domains (costaricaquilts.com and costaricalandsurveys.com) last year. I get twin copies of a lot of junk mail (especially the "your free $100 Gift Card is waiting" kind), and I assume that is from the domain registration.<BR/><BR/>I have since learned that there are services that can shield your personal information, but I didn't know about them at the time (or they didn't exist yet). I could probably switch to one of those services, but enough damage is already done that I haven't bothered.<BR/><BR/>I worried that I might need to change my address earlier this year when I was reverse-spammed...someone took my address and used it as the return address when they sent out <I>their</I> spam (which was of the discount software variety).<BR/><BR/>So I got flooded with returned mail notices (all of which were automatically generated) when the spam was sent to nonexistent (or spam-shielded) addresses. These messages were not actually spam, and were not filtered as such, so I had to wade through them myself.<BR/><BR/>If it had happened at a time when I was sending out a mailing to my own mailing list for the quilt retreat it would have been disastrous, because I relied on the bounced messages from that to keep my records up to date.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, it happened about four times over a period of two weeks or so and has not been repeated since.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, your spam problem is not likely to reach these proportions any time soon. (But by then imagine how mine will look!)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16453489879246452921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133752370248757582005-12-04T21:12:00.000-06:002005-12-04T21:12:00.000-06:00Guess I should stop whining. I just checked my Nor...Guess I should stop whining. I just checked my Norton AntiSpam Folder, and during the past month, my total number of spams is 72. <BR/><BR/>(Maybe I'll catch up with you someday...ugh!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133744427849408292005-12-04T19:00:00.000-06:002005-12-04T19:00:00.000-06:00Make no mistake; I get all that other stuff too. T...Make no mistake; I get all that other stuff too. These were just a couple that struck my fancy in today's batch of 77. I particularly liked the asterisk in the free Bible offer.<BR/><BR/>Which reminds me of a little not-quite-a-limerick I always liked:<BR/><BR/>Pretty Mary donned her skates<BR/>Upon the ice to frisk.<BR/>Wasn't she a silly thing,<BR/>Her little *<BR/><BR/>On the topic of adages (from before there were women), here's my current favorite:<BR/><BR/>Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16453489879246452921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11428766.post-1133738226473586192005-12-04T17:17:00.000-06:002005-12-04T17:17:00.000-06:00Hmmm. You get offers of free Bibles, while I (a mi...Hmmm. You get offers of free Bibles, while I (a minister) get swamped with offers for products to foster um, ah, shall we say, anatomical enhancements. And sure-fire "sleeper" stocks which are sure to octuple in value in the next few weeks. And Microsoft products dirt cheap. And, of course, dire warnings about trouble with accounts I do not have.<BR/><BR/>The spam has greatly increased over the past few weeks/months. My ISP's spam filter is lousy, but the Norton spam filter gets it right more than not, and puts them into a special folder. Just for fun, I always check to see what country they're from, and they're coming from Japan, Korea, China, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Russia, Slovenia, France, Brazil, etc. And a few from the United States. (One just came in as I'm writing this...it's from Poland.)<BR/><BR/>The notion of attempted "spam filters" reminds me of the old adage: "If man (this was before we had women, I guess) builds a better mousetrap, nature will breed a smarter mouse."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com