E-Mail Address List For Sale
I received a spam e-mail yesterday offering me a list of three billion e-mail addresses. I suspect, I’m on it, as they say they used the list to spam me.
How do you get off a list like that?
The only way is to change your e-mail address! Not easy, if it’s a domain, you’ve spent a lot of money on!
But in my view, as probably selling the list is illegal in most civilised countries in the world, shouldn’t someone have the power to at least ban the domain they are using? That by the way is \\email\\million\\dot\\c\\o\\m. It is registered in Muscat.
The Anonymous Widower 
Spam is a modern curse. The potential problem was not envisaged when the email system was first designed. Indeed it was not designed to be the primary method of communicating it has become. consequently it is very difficult to control its abuse.
Until recently we had our own Outlook email server, but now we have changed to using Google. They charge a small fee per user, and we have found a dramatic reduction in spam. We still have the same domain names and email addresses, and so their filtering must be the cause of the improvment. we are not losing any emails, and so it is not filtering out anything we want. We still get some spam, but it is at a much more managable level. Personal spam is a nuisance, but commercial spam is costly. Most commercial companies have jobs@, enquiries@, sales@, etc. and these are easy pickings for spam software.
I am definately not in favour of the death penalty, but there are times when I have momentarily wished it could be introduced for spammers!
Comment by John Wright | July 1, 2010 |
Google sounds lkike a good idea. Have you a link and how much does it cost?
Comment by AnonW | July 1, 2010 |