If you post to a newsgroup using your email address, you will start getting spam. You can prevent this by using a temporary mailing address such as hotmail, or yahoo. Or you can tell us to omit your correct address and we will post your recipes with recipes@swcp.com as the address. If you have written us and do not get an answer, ask yourself if you are sending us a valid address.

The short answer is: "You aren't." Usually when someone thinks the Apache site is originating spam, it's because they've traced the spam to a Web site, and the Web site says it's using Apache. See the previous FAQ entry for more details on this phenomenon. No marketing spam originates from the Apache site. The only mail that comes from the site goes only to addresses that have been requested to receive the mail.

You can always complain about unsolicited e-mail to both the bozo that sent it to you and the bozo's postmaster. To write to a postmaster, just substitute the perp's username in their address (e.g., bozo@otherwise.lovely.com) with "postmaster" (i.e., postmaster@otherwise.lovely.com.) Please be brief and polite with the postmasters, include a copy of the e-mail you received, and leave the subject-line intact (in case the postmaster wants to set up an auto-responder.

Yes. You can find this on the filtering tab of the SpamBayes manager dialog. However, you should also see the envelope icon question.

You are given the opportunity to receive email updates when you first register but you do not have to choose this option.

Unsolicited e-mail, sometimes referred to as 'spam' or 'unsolicited commercial email' (UCE), is electronic mail which is unwarranted and sent for the purpose of selling the recipient goods or services. It is most often used for multi-level marketing schemes, get-rich-quick schemes, work-at-home schemes or for questionable products or pornography. Several years ago 'spammers' developed software that could lift all the email addresses from web pages.

Virtuoso enables you to combine the functionality of a mail system and database so that you can custom develop spam filters or customize Virtuoso (via its server extensions kit) to work with 3rd party Spam filter tools. Virtuoso can enable Spam filtering to occur immediately after mails are deposited in your mailbox, and prior to POP3 mail retrieval.

The name comes from a Monty Python skit (real audio) in which all normal conversation is drowned out by the word "spam" being repeated over and over again.

No. The Magic Coffee Mug respects your privacy (other than displaying your submitted questions for all the world to gape at.)

Yes. Exchange Server 2003 can be configured to block some spam, and Outlook 2003 also blocks spam using enhanced filters. These filters can be configured automatically using Windows Small Business Server 2003. For more information about blocking unsolicited e-mail in Windows Small Business Server 2003, see the topic "Unsolicited e-mail is being delivered to Exchange server mailboxes" in Windows Small Business Server 2003 Troubleshooting.

LoadMail takes junk mail complaints seriously, and provides multiple ways to protect your members. We filter e-mail from known spammers. We provide online support to help you recognize and deal with junk mail issues. We provide member filters to block e-mail from unwanted addresses, and have instituted a Junk Mail folder that we are continually updating to direct unsolicited commercial e-mail away from your Inbox.

The reason you receive some of the spam emails is because the SpamFilter engine requires time to learn. The SpamFilter is a smart learning tool. Even though the SpamFilter engine is updated periodically with new type of spam emails, it requires your co-operation to help it learn the new type of spam email that you receive to the email address that is provided in the notification email sent to you signed up for the SpamFilter services.

No, neither attachments nor e-mails are deleted. The spam filter marks the e-mail as spam (subject tagging), and with Outlook 2003 these e-mails can be processed automatically by the user. Yes, green.ch offers spam protection for all e-mail accounts. In e-mails that have been identified as spam on our server, [SPAM?] appears in the Subject line.

These lists catch most spam and many viruses, but not all. Note that these checks are applied to both incoming and outgoing email. The incoming checks help protect your account from receiving spam. The outgoing checks help reduce the risk that a cwdMail account will be used to send spam. It is very important that you understand that cwdmail.com is designed to be very aggressive in blocking spam and as a result you may not receive email that other mail providers permit.

We'll leave a short answer here, yes. Very. We have many protection layers against this. Spam and virus is protected by Flamewall MailSecurity Enterprise which handles all mail and it works... damn well too!

Sending unsolicited bulk e-mail (commonly referred to as Spam) with your TCQ Internet account is prohibited, and can be cause for termination of your account. Please see our Service Agreement for more information. If you are receiving spam mail in your TCQ Internet mailbox, you can report it to us from our Reporting Spam Mail web page.

Don't ever do that! Spammers use that method to validate? addresses. If you reply to unsubscribe, and in some cases if you just open the mail, your address is validated as being alive and that means spam will increase dramatically. If you did not subscribe to something you should not unsubscribe from it. If you did subscribe, then remember to unsubscribe when you don't want the newsletter anymore, instead of blocking it. You can read more about mailing list management here.

I have activated the antispam filter from my webmail, but it doesn't block the messages coming from some addresses, why'

You can personalise your spam and virus filter levels. If you are still receiving unrequested mail, we suggest you strengthen your protection filters.

NDR mail with spam in the body is spam according to our customers, according to the anti-spam mechanisms, and clearly it works for the spammers or it wouldn't be so common. We can't argue with everyone - it has to be treated as spam, even though it is RFC compliant mail that originates, in a sense, on your MTA. This is not the first RFC that has had to be avoided (or even violated) due to the spammers tactics. Our customers that use your service can identify your IP as an allowed relay.

NewAddress.ie only gives your new address details to the companies you select. We do not sell your information to any third parties.

No. We never, ever give out customer information or e-mail addresses in any manner. Usually we do not send newsletters more often that once per month.

End users receive a Spam Quar ne Report in their inbox that contains a link to their quar ne. This notification allows them to access blocked messages and restore messages from quar ne, if desired, and easily configure the system to allow those types of email in the future.

Click on the Specific words from the "Step 2" box and type X-uottawa-MailScanner-SpamScore:~~~~~ From the "Step 1" box, select move it to the specified folder and click on the specified link from the step 2 box

SPAM Filtering was implemented in June of this year. The SPAM Filter gives each incoming email a score based on common SPAM elements in an email. Generally any score over 5 is SPAM. SPAM Filter settings on each mail account are set by default to "mark as SPAM in Subject", this means that if the SPAM Score is equal or more than the number in the 'Score to Mark SPAM in Subject' setting, then the word '[SPAM]' is appended to the front of the subject of the email.