>I don't understand how making a website or getting >a domain name is supposed to help me? Clint, >please explain?
I thought I explained that already Lisa, see this again: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12921.html "The suggestions I previously gave you is a starting point (about your ISP). If you don't have a website, you can get one and get it hosted for really cheap. A domain name (plus hosting by with whomever you register it) for about $1.99, but the hosting may be a bit more. A domain name for about $6.95-$8.95, then really GOOD hosting for about $4.95 a month (get one that uses the cPanel hosting software). The purpose of that would be your domain would have as many email addresses as you wanted, yours to delete and create at will, and FILTERED by cPanel's "Email filters" to which you can create up to 999 email filters blocking anything you chose in the header, subject, or message body." See the last sentence above. To explain further: with a website hosted by a company that uses the "cPanel" type of software, you can create up to 999 email addresses AT ONCE. You can also, at any time you want, delete ones that are being attacked, and create new ones (again, up to 999 at the same time). Even better, is their "Email filters" which allows one to also create up to (I'm not sure how many) email filters. I have about 850 of them now. You can block any number, IP address, partial IP address, word, words or phrases in the message headers, subject line, or message body. You never even have to see or deal with these blocked emails. So for one example, if you create the address lisa(at)yourdomainname.com and it starts being attacked from let's say, UCE from (no surprise) the RIPE region, (which is the Europe area), like from 82.123.123.123, you can add a filter to block all email from that IP. If it continues from that same IP range (and it will), you can delete that one and make one for 82.123.123.*** which means that one will block all email from that IP range 82.123.123.(0-255), where as the last IP block is the wildcard and would block 82.123.123.1 all the way through 82.123.123.255. If it still continues from OTHER 82. prefix IP addresses, then you can delete that one and block EVERYTHING that begins with 82., so that means 82.***.***.*** will be blocked where *** stands for 1-255 (which I have been forced to do, along with dozens of other entire IP blocks). Then you can also do the same with any URL, or word(s) or phrase. When you keep getting attacked by the same type of email with "those certain words" in it (and we all know what they are), and if the emails are coming from DIFFERENT IP regions (and they do), you can make a filter to block "that or those certain word(s)" in the subject or email body. If you get fed up with filters, and/or it's an address you created that is not subscribed to a bunch of things and wouldn't be any problem to delete, just delete the address "lisa(at)yourdomainname.com" and create any new one "lisa2(at)yourdomainname.com" or "whatever(at)yourdomainname.com". Then (if you choose the option) any email sent to the old address you will never receive (and will be bounced back to the sender). "cPanel" is just an interface, a control panel where you access your website's functions and features. Here's an example of how one looks: http://ehostpros.com/images/xskin.gif . (There are many themes from which to choose, you just tell your hosts which one you want). In that particular theme, in your case with email, you'd click the "Main manager" and in that area is where you'd add/delete email addresses and add/delete email filters. You don't even have to create a website or webpage, you can just leave up the blank page or default page and only use the email. There also may be some totally free hosts out there that offer the cPanel package with multiple email address options and features. Look at the "Starter" package here, only $2.99 a month and it has the full-featured cPanel options. http://ehostpros.com/hosting/hosting.html It's really a great idea, and worth it IMO to have TOTAL control over your email addresses. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Schnepf" Hi John, I am willing to listen to advice. What I don't appreciate is people like Hugh who just want to ban me from the list. He hasn't tried to help. He just wants me gone. I am not as computer literate as some of you, that is why I'm on the list - to learn. I don't understand how making a website or getting a domain name is supposed to help me? Clint, please explain? I am going to uninstall Comodo Antispam. Happy, Hugh? Lisa -----Original Message----- John O'Flynn Lisa, I just received my first piece of spam from ComodoAntispam, so now I'm just as mad as everybody else. The punchline came at the end of the message: "Comodo AntiSpam is completely free. Experience a 100% spam free inbox for yourself by visiting www.comodo.com " Well, I had a 100% spam free inbox before you came along with this Comodo thing. But I notice that it says "for yourself". It doesn't say what happens to everybody else! The swine who created this thing is probably off somewhere giggling over the mess he has got people like you into. I hope all the others on this list are taking note of what happens when you use one of these challenge/response filters to "make friends and influence people". And Lisa, in case you haven't actually seen the message that Mr. Comodo is sending out in YOUR name, it starts like this: Hi, it's Lisa Schnepf. I finally decided I'd had enough of junk mail, and installed a fantastic application that gets rid of it all. Unfortunately, you are not yet in my trusted senders list!! The only way I'll get your emails is if you follow the steps outlined below: . . . The irony of this beats anything I've seen for a long time. Well Lisa, the bad news is that I don't want to be in your trusted senders list and I'm not rising to any bait. Why don't you toss that package in the river? I hope you haven't shelled out any good money to those animals. Unfortunately the Web is crawling with that kind of vermin. There are people on this list who can help you with serious suggestions on what to do about spam. The best I can come up with is to use multiple addresses and keep a careful record of who you gave each one to in case one needs to be folded. But there's better than that, if you listen to advice. John ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? 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