• Welcome to the new B.I.R.D. Forum. Please be sure to read the "New Member / New Registered ? Please Read" thread in the Coffee Shop. This contains some important information. To become a full member ( £5.90 a year ) simply click on your user name near the top on the right I hope you enjoy the new site ................ Jaws ( John )

Spam.. have YOU ever bought anything ?

Jaws

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I only ever open a spam mail by mistake.. as soon as I realise what it is it is deleted..

Because I own so many domain names all of which have unlimited email address's, I get, on average, 1 to 200 spams a day..

Now I suspect that I am not alone in the 'delete without even looking' brigade, but has anyone ever bought or acted on anything they have receieved info about via a spam mail ?
 

Fat Bert

Registered User
Hmmm

Well I once tried to buy a bigger dick enhanced with silicone

Price was extortionate but what the hell, I'd just won ?16m on the Nigerian Lottery
 
C

Coggy

Guest
No,it just takes up your time reading it

%$fan
 

Pugwash

Registered User
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John, I use an excellent free Outlook plug-in called SpamBayes. It learns what spam looks like from what you get, and filters out about 95% of my spam every day. It has smiley faces on the buttons too! Apparently it works with Outlook Express too via a proxy set-up.

Yesterday I got 56 spam emails, 10 legit emails. I'm going to switch off the catch-all setting soon on some domain names, as they account for most of it.
 

Rolfy Dave

Been there, and had one
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Spam fritters are absolutely wonderful...


Also bacon & Spam sarnies with a bit of brown sauce...

Always have a can in the cupboard John...

Cheers,

Rolfy
:beer:
 

derek kelly

The Deli lama
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Monty Python Spam Song
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag.

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
 

Rolfy Dave

Been there, and had one
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Codbasher said:
I preferred the Lumberjacks song.......... :rolleyes:
Mmmmmmm ??

Something about dressing in womens clothing ???

"Nudge nudge, wink wink, Say no more squire" !!!

ROFL.

Rolfy
:beer:
 
N

NoBBy

Guest
Jaws said:
I only ever open a spam mail by mistake.. as soon as I realise what it is it is deleted..

Because I own so many domain names all of which have unlimited email address's, I get, on average, 1 to 200 spams a day..

Now I suspect that I am not alone in the 'delete without even looking' brigade, but has anyone ever bought or acted on anything they have receieved info about via a spam mail ?


The reply percentage to make a profit will be very low, they send them out in the Millions.

As an example

Junk mail only need a reply rate of 2-5%

Un-addressed leaflets only need 0.1-0.5%


Also most spam email goes to the gullible Yanks, any country that can elect George Bush as their leader will be suckers.
 
R

R2B2

Guest
Jaws said:
I get, on average, 1 to 200 spams a day..
Ah, but you do use AOHELL John, dontcha!! I was getting about the same amount with them.

Switch to Zen mate (or someone similar) and that will drop to about 1-5 per month.
 

Shalershasker

Old Hand
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I just delete it all usually, can't be bothered to actually read the stuff and when you haven't been on here for a couple of days you need all the time you can get to catch up with the threads.c7u8
 

Jaws

Corporal CockUp
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R2B2 said:
Ah, but you do use AOHELL John, dontcha!! I was getting about the same amount with them.

Switch to Zen mate (or someone similar) and that will drop to about 1-5 per month.


I get absolutely nothing addressed to straightfour@aol.com so AOL is doing a bang up job of stopping it dead..

No, my problem is the 104 domain names I have registered that have unlimited email names ( fred@jaws-motorcycles.com , tech@hondablackbird.co.uk etc etc etc )

Because it goes through my own mail servers AOL does not consider it spam but legit mail..
Tis a bugger and no doubt about it !
 

Duck n Dive

Rebel without a clue ...
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Well I did once open some spam but I could never get very well with that key thingy that you have to get the little bit of metal into. Found I kept getting it broken and ended up hitting the can....... :dunno:
 
R

R2B2

Guest
Jaws said:
I get absolutely nothing addressed to straightfour@aol.com so AOL is doing a bang up job of stopping it dead..
Well, there's something odd somewhere then, or summat I'm not understanding.

If you remember I was having a friggin' nightmare with AOHELL and was DELUGED with spam. I was getting so much my mail box was often full and I was not getting genuine emails. The berks in the tech support repeatedly told me the only way to try to stop it was to switch to different usernames.

When I ditched them and went to ZEN........ wahaaaaay, the spam stopped overnight and I never had a single spam for over a year!! I now get just a few a month (maybe 5).

So what happened? (not a contentious question mate - I'm just trying to understand it!)
 

Jaws

Corporal CockUp
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So what happened? (not a contentious question mate - I'm just trying to understand it!)
Nah mate.. appreciate it is a genuine question..

About a year ago AOL decided to make a very strong stand agin spam and viri ( ? )

It is almost impossible to either upload or download a virus now ( I had a dummy one and tried it.. simply would not allow me to send it )

On top of that they do not just ban user names that are sticking out spam, but whole servers get black flagged.. And the most common server to be used for spamming in the UK ?
The BT ones !!
They get sin binned for 2 hours then AOL takes a look at the mail and if it is still spammed it is 4 hours.. etc

So that has now forced BT and a fair few others to make more of an effort to keep the spammers off their servers...

There is even a 'report spam' button at the bottom of your e-mail window.. ( course it is no good to me as the spam I am getting is not to the aol addy, so little point in reporting it to aol as they cannot control it ! )
 

Pugwash

Registered User
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The trouble is, their idea of spam extends to ANY email my customers on AOL try to send from their non-AOL email account. AOL provide an alternative port number to send through that bypasses the checks on the way out. Once I'd figured that out I had to talk some low-tech people through the settings in Outlook. c7u8

Black-listing sucks anyway. How many legit emails are you not getting because of them? It's anyone's guess. Besides, some spams are pure comedy to read!

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