[Woodcarver] How to help prevent Spam, it is not the list doing it! (Chat)

[Greg Wilkerson]

Great advice Vic, if people would follow it. 
I would add that if people don't use the BCC as you stated, they should at
least ask the people they put on their forwarding lists if they want to be
on it. I was receiving political and religious forwards from a person that I
didn't even know very well, then all of a sudden I started getting bombarded
with idiotic white supremecy junk. I noticed that a lot of the email address
on this one person's forward CC line were also in the white supremecy CC
line. It took quite a while and a lot of threatening e-mails to get this
junk stopped. Therefore I would caution everyone who creates forwarding
lists to remember that it can get out of hand quickly, so make sure the
people you put on your forwarding lists want to be on them.

Greg

Greg Wilkerson
197 Keystone Road 
Branson, MO 65616
visit my website at: http://www.wilkersonwoodcarving.com
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[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Victor Hamburger
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:30 AM
To: woodcarver
Subject: [Woodcarver] How to help prevent Spam, it is not the list doing it!

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All:

I doubt this stuff is from the list, it likely is someone's address book
that has been compromised by a spammer.  Bill can't do anymore about this
than you or I can.

I have, over many years of doing this stuff, found several ways to help
prevent spam from the type you all are reporting now.

1.  NEVER send a note to a large mailing list of folks without copying each
person as bcc: (Blind Carbon Copy) instead of the To: field.  This prevents
spammers from picking your email off the internet traffic and grabbing all
those real addresses you just used. If they can't see who you send the mail
to, they can't use the addresses.

2.  Get a good anti virus program and use it! It is cheap insurance and
there are some free ones out there as well. 

3. If you are connected to the internet via full time connection, like cable
or DSL, use a firewall program to keep the world out of your computer!
Again, they are fairly cheap and save a world of work. Particularly
important if you use internet explorer for mail, as that is the favorite
target of spammers and virus distributors.

4. Don't send a mail message on to everyone warning about the latest virus,
etc until you check it out with one of the anti virus sites, to be sure it
is accurate and correct.  It almost NEVER is!! The people who create those
stupid messages tend to hide a "mail back" feature in the code, so when you
forward the message to all your friends, it goes right back to the spammers!
Nasty trick, eh?

5. NEVER believe everything you read about virus', horror stories, etc on
email, there is nothing that says it is for real, so relax and enjoy the
carving list and keep your computer safe!

	Vic H
I'm sure others will have more hints and tips as well.


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