# Robert Friel stop spamming me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 27, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095 "2002-11-27T13:14:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095/1 "2002-11-27T13:14:51Z")

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Is anybody else getting half a dozen emails every day from this guy? Most have .scr attachments that contain the W32/Yaha.g@MM Virus. I’m at my limit of ten filters on Hotmail so I can’t even block this guy.

:mad:

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095/2 "2002-11-27T13:38:50Z")

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Let’s send this baby to the BBQ Pit so that proper appreciation can be shown. In the meantime, I would delete the least offensive of the ten filters and add one for Mr. Friel. Also e-mail the folks at Hotmail to let them know they have a problem with this bozo that they must fix, or you will be forced to drop them.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095/3 "2002-11-27T13:51:05Z")

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Oh no, I’m in the pit. I feel so dirty.

The problem with the filters is that Hotmail apparently made the ten filter restriction at a time when I had something like 30 set up. I tried to delete a few (I’m down to 25 now) but I keep getting the message that I’m over the ten filter limit for free accounts. So it seems that I would have to give up most of my filters to fall below the limit of ten before I can set up a new one for Mr. Friel.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095/4 "2002-11-27T14:06:25Z")

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Are you sure his email address isn’t being spoofed?

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-friel-stop-spamming-me/139095/5 "2002-11-28T01:11:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by dantheman \*  
> \*\*Are you sure his email address isn’t being spoofed? \*\*

Having recently re-read the TMI thread, the jokes that are flowing through my mind right now…