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Yikes! Never, never, never ever request removal/unsubscribe!
Posted by bdk on Tue Aug 20, 2002 12:24:54 PM
In reply top Not a Warbird question, but I need advice........ posted by Karen on Tue Aug 20, 2002 09:15:21 AM
This is a ploy to verify that your e-mail address is valid! If you respond, they know they have a valid target for additional spamming.
Outlook 2000 allows you to redirect these things to the porno trash can automatically, but you have to have received it once from that source and identify it as porn. If they use a new return address (some never use the same one twice), it will get through.
Maybe you could just buy your kids porno films and desensitize them from this kind of thing? :-(
How savvy are your kids with computers? You might be able to set up an e-mail address just for them and set up the "rules" system to trash anything from an e-mail address that is not one of their friend's whose address you have previously identified. If your kids are computer savvy though, they may be able to disable this feature.
By the way, you can set up Outlook Express so that you see the subject line only, not the body of the text. That way you would have to open the e-mail message to view it.
BK
: Good morning all,
:
: I have a troubling problem and I am wondering if any o
: f you can help. I have been receiving graphically, pornogr
: aphic emails, from sites, I can't trace. I have requested
: to be removed, and after I click the link it says "Have a
: nice afterlife", but continues to send this garbage. The o
: ne I received this morning is the most troubling because i
: t involves teenagers. It says at the bottom of the email t
: hat I am receiving these emails because I signed up for th
: em. This is rediculous.
:
: I have contacted my internet provider, and they are no
: t being much help at all. I have my security settings set
: as high as they can be, and they are STILL getting through
: . My internet servie is paid for the year, and I REALLY do
: n't want to change providers unless I have no other choice
: !
:
: I would just delete it, and be done with it, except th
: is is the connection, and address my children use. They do
: n't understand why Mom has to connect for them, and check
: the email before they can check for mail from their pen pa
: ls! I am worried that one of these will come through while
: they are online. Because we use Outlook Express you do no
: t have to open the mail to view it.
:
: I am at my wits end, any help would be very greatly app
: reciated!
: Karen