basepointdesignz
Programmer
Hi,
This morning when i opened up Outlook, it was showing 140 emails coming through, only a handful of these were proper real emails from proper real people and i had only last checked my emails on friday night, so thats over the space of the weekend..
It took about 30 mins before everything stopped coming through and i could even dream of checking my proper emails. its just getting ridiculous. i don't want to be waiting for ages each morning for masses of emails to finally arrive, only to click 99% of them and bin them to the junk folder, and i tell you what, the majority of these emails come with the title Mail Delivery Subsystem or something similar...emails that apparently been sent from MY email addresses and bouncing back as if I have been sending SPAM, hahahaha..
I have norton, including Anti-Spam and even downloaded the outlook add-in "SpamBayes" and have been training it for weeks to block or filter these messages, and this still doesn't work, i still get hundreds of stuff from the USA giving me loans and credit cards and opportunities for this and that - i don't live in america, why and how could i ever get a loan from there or want Viagra or penis enlarging pills, lol..
Is all this the responsibilty of my web hosters? not the spam itself, but for not stopping this spam? especially as these spammers are using my emails aliases to send emails and i'm getting all the flack and returned emails for it? what can i do to stop this or at least calm it down????
Only a few months ago, i was getting the odd spam in my inbox every day but now its become like global infection and every 5 minutes i'm deleting some email selling me stuff i would never want or need or emails that have bounced back to me, which i knew nothing about - it almost makes me laugh..
anyways, its monday morning, i've not had any tea or breakfast and i just wanted to add my two cents and rant to the world to find out how and more importantly why the hell we let this happen and how do we put a stop to it all?????????????????????
Cheers,
Paul
basepointdesignzltd
This morning when i opened up Outlook, it was showing 140 emails coming through, only a handful of these were proper real emails from proper real people and i had only last checked my emails on friday night, so thats over the space of the weekend..
It took about 30 mins before everything stopped coming through and i could even dream of checking my proper emails. its just getting ridiculous. i don't want to be waiting for ages each morning for masses of emails to finally arrive, only to click 99% of them and bin them to the junk folder, and i tell you what, the majority of these emails come with the title Mail Delivery Subsystem or something similar...emails that apparently been sent from MY email addresses and bouncing back as if I have been sending SPAM, hahahaha..
I have norton, including Anti-Spam and even downloaded the outlook add-in "SpamBayes" and have been training it for weeks to block or filter these messages, and this still doesn't work, i still get hundreds of stuff from the USA giving me loans and credit cards and opportunities for this and that - i don't live in america, why and how could i ever get a loan from there or want Viagra or penis enlarging pills, lol..
Is all this the responsibilty of my web hosters? not the spam itself, but for not stopping this spam? especially as these spammers are using my emails aliases to send emails and i'm getting all the flack and returned emails for it? what can i do to stop this or at least calm it down????
Only a few months ago, i was getting the odd spam in my inbox every day but now its become like global infection and every 5 minutes i'm deleting some email selling me stuff i would never want or need or emails that have bounced back to me, which i knew nothing about - it almost makes me laugh..
anyways, its monday morning, i've not had any tea or breakfast and i just wanted to add my two cents and rant to the world to find out how and more importantly why the hell we let this happen and how do we put a stop to it all?????????????????????
Cheers,
Paul
basepointdesignzltd