Comments on: Spammer of the Day: SchoolNews.com http://timgibbons.tv/2008/05/16/spammer-of-the-day-schoolnewscom/ TV • Film • New Media • Advice From A Hollywood Insider Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: sendbutton http://timgibbons.tv/2008/05/16/spammer-of-the-day-schoolnewscom/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 sendbutton Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:20:09 +0000 http://timgibbons.tv/2008/05/16/spammer-of-the-day-schoolnewscom/#comment-1608 There are email retaliation companies that you can subscribe to for free that use their own tactics against themselves. Once you create a rule in your outlook, you can automatically fire a trigger email to the service that will send a massive email bomb to the originating server... careful though... I had this setup to send if any received email had "canadian", "prescription" and "low cost" in it... my father forwarded me a terrible joke that included these three phrases and yahoo ended up shutting off my father's email. My bad. There are email retaliation companies that you can subscribe to for free that use their own tactics against themselves. Once you create a rule in your outlook, you can automatically fire a trigger email to the service that will send a massive email bomb to the originating server… careful though… I had this setup to send if any received email had “canadian”, “prescription” and “low cost” in it… my father forwarded me a terrible joke that included these three phrases and yahoo ended up shutting off my father’s email.

My bad.

]]> By: Kelly http://timgibbons.tv/2008/05/16/spammer-of-the-day-schoolnewscom/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Kelly Sat, 17 May 2008 05:28:00 +0000 http://timgibbons.tv/2008/05/16/spammer-of-the-day-schoolnewscom/#comment-14 This has nothing to do with schoolnews.com, however it is a similarly related story. I'm a dot mac member, however I recently signed up for gmail (for I have to pay $100 a year for apple's email service). Literally within the first three hours of signing up for gmail (and, mind you, without sending an email from said gmal address), I received the stereotypical deposed-king from Africa email, promising millions of dollars if I do this and this and that. Within THREE hours. <br/><br/>It's simply disappointing that these companies make a mockery of their own promises to their customer base.<br/><br/>-Kelly Q. This has nothing to do with schoolnews.com, however it is a similarly related story. I’m a dot mac member, however I recently signed up for gmail (for I have to pay $100 a year for apple’s email service). Literally within the first three hours of signing up for gmail (and, mind you, without sending an email from said gmal address), I received the stereotypical deposed-king from Africa email, promising millions of dollars if I do this and this and that. Within THREE hours.

It’s simply disappointing that these companies make a mockery of their own promises to their customer base.

-Kelly Q.

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