Scenario: You've won an online auction (eBay, Yahoo, VCoins, etc,) for a beautiful coin and corresponded with the seller to some extent negotiating the shipping with a thanks thrown in. A few days later the coin arrives (Priority Mail) everything is fine "alles ist fein." Feedbacks are posted and the transaction is history. Several days later you receive an e-mail (from the earlier seller) sent to "undisclosed recipients" reminding you that they know what your collecting habits are and might have something of interest. The attachment to the e-mail lists their complete inventory. You politely respond with "no thanks, please remove me from the list" as there is no unsubscribe link at the bottom to the page. A few days later another offer from the same individual come in and you respond the same way. One week later, guess what... Your next step is? :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:
Just block him. The Law of Large Numbers says that ISPs won't get around to doing anything meaningful.
while that may be the law of large numbers I would disagree---there is a local forum--I'm not on it much but its about things around town and its part of a forum about all of the US----anyone can get on and make a place for their town---since I'm on dial up internet I get a new IP almost every time I connent---on that forum they have baned some of the IP addresses I use--so every now and then I have to log out and then get back online before I can post. This would work really good if everyone had HIGH SPEED or internet that knew what IP you got and then kept it for you---but IMHO the best thing to do is contact the internet company---most companys have a charge for each spam that a person sends out---such as if he sends out 10 and they charge $10 for every spam not then he pays $100---its a good plan and it works good IF the company does it. Speedy
One of my daily email exercises is to go through the in box and delete about 90% of what is there without opening or reading it. This takes all of about 10 seconds. When I notice the same address appearing several times, I block it. I consider this to be a normal part of using a computer just as throwing out the junk mail delivered by the US Post Office is also a daily sorting process.
Getting spam is a major headache.The worst offenders are banks,& those offering computer software,penis enlargements,& pharmaceutical drugs.I thought that it was illegal to sell pharmaceutical drugs online.I know that is definitely the case over here in New Zealand. Aidan.
With the program that I have, I can turn them in as SPAM, and that's what I do if I don't know them, in the past 6 mos. I've went from getting anywhrere between 50 & 75 to less than 20 a day, so far today only 3 they will be turned as SPAM
