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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 30 May 2002, 01:13

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 May 2002, 01:13

I just got an e-mail from a supposed "microsoft" address ([email protected]). It was sent to about a hundred hotmail adresses and was an ad for porno.

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Refalm on 30 May 2002, 01:33

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Master of Reality: I just got an e-mail from a supposed "microsoft" address ([email protected]). It was sent to about a hundred hotmail adresses and was an ad for porno.

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I get those too, but then in the form of:
[email protected]

Which are impossible to block, because next time, they change it into:
[email protected]

So I'll always recieve their stupid spam  :mad:

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 May 2002, 02:12

this was at my hotmail account which currently has 1200 e-mails in it.. all spam.

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Xenoran on 30 May 2002, 05:12

All web-based email sucks... especially HotMail. If you need it to be web-based, the best thing you can do is sign up for a really cheap Linux/Unix-based webhost, pick up a cheap domain and then install SquirrelMail on the webserver. It's free and it beats the hell out of every other free AND pay web-based email service.

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: voidmain on 30 May 2002, 05:16

Very true. I have my own Linux mail servers and use "imp" for web based access for my users. It's nice being able to use ORDB to block addresses and put sendmail milter filters in place to block certain types of attachments, and being able to run other spam filters.. The only thing the spam server like hotmail are good for are for garbage spam accounts...

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 May 2002, 05:23

i log into my hotmail accounts once every 60 days just to keep them active and take up room on hotmail servers, i have the max space taken up in my hotmail accounts, i sign up for all the mailing lists and even have my hotmail listed on "the list" in The Abyss (http://abyss.servebeer.com).

Title: fake or real e-mails?
Post by: Kintaro on 1 June 2002, 12:40

Ummmm why M0R Microsoft Can afford more Hard Disk...