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Flash Full Member Australia 637 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 18:42:12 I just checked my Hotmail account, something I havn't done for a few days, and there were 1528 messages in my In-Box! Looks like 'Cassandra and all her horny friends' were looking for a date last night. Pity I didn't check my email earlier 68k MLA ParaMedic
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 19:36:34 Now you know why I gave up on hotmail a long time ago... Start was alright, but since it has gotten popular it has lost any speed/anonyminity(?) advantage it once had... Free email sucks! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 21:28:21 I had hotmail way back in the day...i went away to camp for 4 weeks and came back with around 300 junk-mail-messages... -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
Rexzilla Junior Member 132 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 21:32:42 Yahoo messenger is getting as bad. Yahoo is targeting spam to their members...they seem to think I need a home loan, a security camera and I am horny most of the time. You know they might be right:)
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 21:39:35 quote: Yahoo messenger is getting as bad. Yahoo is targeting spam to their members...they seem to think I need a home loan, a security camera and I am horny most of the time. You know they might be right:) jt ™
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2002 : 21:43:17 It's funny the number of companied that seem to exist only to mail out spam... or maybe there are actually enough idiots who buy from them to keep them alive! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
sosumi not the MAF mod USA 129 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 01:00:05 when you open a hotmail account, you have to make sure you opt not to be listed in the member directory and choose a filter, then you only get a couple of hotmail/msn spammail per week. I neglected to do this once and yikes! sosumi 68k macs liberated:3
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 03:31:26 I have Hotmail. I'm not listed in any members directory and I have no spam filter on. I have received 0 spam emails. (Except for those "Win a free X-box!" spam mails I keep getting from the Hotmail staff..... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!) Fleet Covert Ops Padlock Magnet
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 04:26:31 How long have you been a member for? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Flash Full Member Australia 637 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 07:10:03 I should point out that 1520 of the 1528 messages were from 'Cassandra and her horny friends' So it's a robot, not spam from multiple locations. The other thing is...This is exactly why I have a Hotmail account - to collect spam! I certainly don't want this crap in my personal inbox. Every time I have to register for anything on the web, I enter my Hotmail address... coz you know they're going to send you information that you don't want 68k MLA ParaMedic
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 07:31:16 quote: I should point out that 1520 of the 1528 messages were from 'Cassandra and her horny friends' So it's a robot, not spam from multiple locations. The other thing is...This is exactly why I have a Hotmail account - to collect spam! I certainly don't want this crap in my personal inbox. Every time I have to register for anything on the web, I enter my Hotmail address... coz you know they're going to send you information that you don't want maybe it's an "ai" bot and her friends from the future! i got my first yahoo address for the same reason and started getting junk right away on my aol account, shoulda set up a dummy username catch basin there beforehand. live and learn. i saw somebody who posted his email in the open on a site with added spaces to deter bots from harvesting it. links to interesting sites for tricks on net usage would be very helpful and much appreciated in the LINKS PROJECT, btw. is there any way to script an offline menubar so we could click on smilies, and editable boilerplate in a seperate app on the desktop and have the os paste the text at the cursor location in the browser? is a utility app to do this already available? back again, having one to paste at the last cursor location in the previous window of ANY app would be really cool! jt ™ Edited by - trash80toG-4 on 01 Apr 2002 07:34:59
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 09:24:16 I hav used Hotmail for about 6 months now. I also have a spam mail adress over at spray.se, whenever I get spam invaded I just move to a new adress, because the filters suck. Fleet Covert Ops Padlock Magnet
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 10:31:57 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear! Edited by - cinemafia on 01 Apr 2002 10:33:16
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 18:05:29 When the hell will Lycos fiinally Shut Up? It seems they are following the old saying, "A spam a day keeps privacy away"... -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6!!! QFW68KPB Project SUCCESS!!!!!
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 00:59:50 Now that 68kmla.com is registered, someone should configure a mail server so we can get @68kmla.com email addresses! Fleet Covert Ops Padlock Magnet
Flash Full Member Australia 637 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 03:47:45 quote: Now that 68kmla.com is registered, someone should configure a mail server so we can get @68kmla.com email addresses! spam@68kmla LOL! 68k MLA ParaMedic
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 06:23:04 Anyone with a mail server to spare? On thing you can do: I've seen people advertise their email addresses as coxyarmadillo@literatureanteaterclassics.com, and then they tell you to remove the menagrie from the addy! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 19:52:04 I signed up for my "Yahoo! Deutschland" account for spam as well. Only personal friends know my other addresses. The other many I don't check at all.
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 23:09:33 I've been using my Hotmail account for about 4 years now, which I now really regret. Over that time, I've accumulated about 1500 messages that I really want to keep- both things I've recieved and things I've writen, and all things I want to keep. Hotmail provides no way to download old messages, so I'm stuck with the account. I signed up for the 'Expanded Service" ($20 down the drain- stupid! Stupid! <smacks self on forehead>), after which I've been under a constand deluge of spam. I get between 30 (on a really good day) and 400 spams a day! Really, several times in the past few weeks, I've gotten 400+ messages from the same address, over and over again, in one day. Anyway, I've learned my lesson- I'm planning on switching to another service soon... Just my $.02 SpaceBoy <still smacking self in forehead> AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 27 Apr 2002 : 01:14:28 I have this conspiracy theory that companies pay MicroSoft, who lets them spam Hotmail adresses. -raWr Fleet Covert Ops
bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 27 Apr 2002 : 01:46:06 quote: Hotmail provides no way to download old messages, Actually, you can download Hotmail messages using Outlook Express. I'm sure the details are floating about online somewhere. Cheers! CC Current score: 1 eMate 300 1 Apple //e 2 LC IIs 1 LC III 1 LC 475 1 Quadra 605 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 1 PB 520c 2 Powermac 6100s 1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240 1 Wallstreet Edited by - bigsadhu on 27 Apr 2002 01:46:49
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 27 Apr 2002 : 07:45:04 quote: I have this conspiracy theory that companies pay MicroSoft, who lets them spam Hotmail adresses. -raWr Fleet Covert Ops It's actually a well known fact... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated

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