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Exactly. It’s like getting our hopes up every time we get an email saying “I love you” 
BTW, though, I don’t think it would be unreasonable to require students to put [Homework] in the subject line. It’s easy enough to do, and make your job a lot easier.
[spam commercial]clap clap MORE SPAM!!![/spam commercial]
ducks and runs for cover
Maybe a little too good.
Mail from two of my clients started getting redirected to the Yahoo Bulk folder. I run their stuff so I know with 100% certainty that they don’t have an e-mail marketing campaign, not even a newsletter. Turns out, the entire Hosting provider is getting their mail redirect to the Bulk folder. They’ve been in business for a loooong time, are a very legit company. They are quick to terminate spammers.
I know of few other businesses, using different hosts, that have noticed the same thing. Entire IP blocks seem to be getting labelled as spam.
It seems to be a new thing. There are a few legit hosts you are now trying to deal with it because it’s interfering with day to day operations of innocent non-spamming customers. They must’ve changed something with the way they deal with non-Yahoo IPs.
Re: The OP OUr website is almost entirely spam free. All of our web forms go to an account called SpamKill@ourdomain.com. From there, filters redirect them to the appropriate inbox according to the subject line. That way, even if someone looks at our HTML they won’t get any employee’s address.
Some wombat felcher must’ve looked at our HTML, goes the stupid fuck actually addressed the e-mail to “spamkill@ourdomain.com.” :rolleyes:
I got an email from “James” yesterday and the subject was “re: Megan” As it happens, I know a Megan and I’ve told some folks about her. I was trying to figure out who James might be. I finally decided to open the mail.
Spam. I spent more time thinking about whether to open it than I did deleting it once I saw it was crap.
Stupid spam.
Oh, I do ask them, but they occasionally put rather ambiguous stuff in the subject heading like “Journal entry” or “that file you asked for”.
And I’ve gotten THOSE two darn phrases in spam mail too!
Since the students don’t usually have their names as their email identities, I have no way of knowing if it’s a student or a spammer if I get an email from “somehotchick@somemail.com”.
Students, especially the younger ones, can and DO use “hot” and naughty email IDs.
Now, once I open the email and discover that it’s NOT a student’s homework assignment, I delete it right away, and have never purchased anything from having been spammed.
I got an email the other day that said “FairyChatMom wants you BAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDD!!!”
But I figured it was spam, and I deleted it with impunity.
Hmmmmm…
I am drowning in spam.
I’ve had to shut down my Yahoo account (agree with all the complaints above). My hotmail account is nearly unusable. But worse than that, I’ve been working from home from Friday until today, and my work inbox currently has 600 pieces of fucking spam in it. About 50% of that will be caught by my filter when I download it, but the rest I’m going to have to delete manually. It’s such a horrendous waste of everyone’s time.
Spam depresses me. The thought of stupid people taking sad and lonely time and effort to bombard other stupid people with crap that, given even a day’s exposure, will surely be deleted even by the most gullible recipient, unless they’re so riven with insecurity that they feel the need to respond to hot and horny horse-fuckers or mothers sucking their sons’ cocks, fills me with deep melancholy. Not exactly sure why I’m sad, not angry, but that is my emotional response.
But it’s so ubiquitous and ineffective that I’m hoping it’s really nothing more than a deeply flawed pyramid scheme that’s just reaching its peak - I believe that most of the money made from spam comes from selling mailing to other spammers. Eventually it’ll go the way of the Albanian economy. I hope.
Well, that explains why I never got an answer… 
I’m pleased to report that after months of spam response on my part, my mortgage rate is so low that the bank sends me money. In addition, I’m making about a gazillion dollars a week, running my own business at home, and I have all of the low cost drugs I could ever want, along with my ahem wonderfully enhanced member. At present I’m petitioning the US Postal Service to obtain a zip code for Mr. Johnson, PA.
Aw, don’t be sad! Remember, FCM if they can’t take a joke!
What I want to know is; has anyone, in the history of e-mail, ever signed up for a penis enlargement as a result of spam they had received?
From all the scare stories I have seen, quite a lot of people who have this type of surgery end up with a penis thats only good for SPAm anyways
I would like my penis enlarged. Can anyone please send me an email explaining how I might go about this? It’s important.
That was…sublime.
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Canvas Shoes–Try having them put the course/section number as the subject of their e-mail. My history prof this semester promised that he would not respond to any of our e-mails that didn’t have the course and section number as the subject.
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That being said, thanks to the glories of spam, I can have my (nonexistent because I’m a woman) penis enlarged. You did know that the small size of my (nonexistent because I’m a woman) penis means that I cannot satisfy anyone in bed. I can also get approved for every credit card that has ever been issued. Once I max out all those credit cards, I can sign up for credit counseling to get my debt and interest rates reduced. And then, after my credit is repaired, I can get a new mortgage at far lower rates! Then, once I have a nicer home, I can spend my days working at home and earning millions.
bah.
Yeah - I completely missed it on first reading. I’m so embarrassed… :o
My God, may I just say that they run those ads here ALL THE TIME and I laugh my ass off every single time. I love to just randomly clap my hands and shout “MORE SPAM!!”
If I clap my hands fast, will it turn the spam off? I’d pay for that.
I would be happy if the spammers at least noticed that a french citizen (adress ending in .fr) is unlikely to get a refund from the US government, to need his credit cleared in the US, or to buy cheap medecines from Canada.
I’m not sure why they insist on sending spams worldwide when the intended market is obviously american (you can add sales, cars, consolidating debts, loans,… from US companies). I know it’s extremely cheap to send a spam, but it must cost something, if only buying/finding the adresses.
I can’t get why they don’t remove from their lists the non-american adresses when whatever they’re selling can be used only by a (dumb) american customer, instead of sending zillions of them to .fr, .it, .es, etc… adresses without the slightest chance of reaching a potential customer.
One advantage is that by deleting everything written in english I receive in my main e-mail, i’m pretty certain my it’s cleared, since I receive perhaps a couple spams/day in french, and one or two hundreds/day in english.
It seems also that recently, instead of sending only one spam/day for a given penis enlargment method or weight loss pill, they send a dozen copies of the same spam, using a dozen different names. Just in case we wouldn’t have enough of it every day.
By the way, I’m quite happy with the abovementionned yahoo spam filter, which is quite efficient, though indeed I have to empty the folder every other day (in other words, if I take vacations or somesuch, my yahoo e-mail is quicly flooded and unusable). I wish they would implement an “auto-delete spam folder content” option.
But anyone in the world can buy those cheap medicines. I get emails all the time about buying drugs in Mexico, and I’m in the U.S. So they figure people will want to save cash and buy discount drugs from across a border or two.