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[Mark Shulaw]

Hi Steve, Thanks for the thought, You're right its not ideal to include 
contact info in emails but Its kinda hard to not include the info you 
mentioned when you run a mail order business like I do. I don't take credit 
cards so I don't have to worry about the security issue there. But since I 
am constantly dealing with Pay Pal I am having to be constantly vigilant.
  I feel changing my email address is out of the question because of the 
mail order. I've got 10 years worth of advertising out there that would 
become obsolete in a matter of a few key strokes. You would be amazed at 
the number of people who if a email address no longer works they give up 
trying to get ahold of you. Its almost like using the telephone is too 
difficult anymore.
  I have contacted my ISP and we are customizing a spam filter for my 
address at the ISP. So far since this morning we have been able to knock it 
down to a quiet roar. With what was done this morning and early afternoon 
the filter has weeded out over 3000 bounce and blocked messages so 
for.  With a little more tweeking I hope we can get it down to a couple 
dozen a day. Instead of hundreds per hour like was happening. But maybe 
this too is a pipe dream.
  TTYL,   Mark

PS: And thanks to all for the the ideas.
  PPS: I wish I was selling the junk they are, there must be a hellofa 
market for it if they are constantly going to all this trouble to do it.


At 07:48 PM 1/17/07, you wrote:
>Mark,
>   Contact your ISP about this. Also you can have them change your 
> account. Then you need to update anything and anyone you have contacted.
>
>Oh, one other thing NEVER,NEVER, NEVER..... put your entire address phone 
>and contact info in ANY EMAIL. Unless your 100% sure it is secure and that 
>any machine receiving that email is 100% secure as well. Just gives WAY to 
>much access to other personal info.
>
>
>Mark Shulaw wrote:
>>Hello Y'all,  I need to ask all of you to do me a favor and that favor is 
>>if you receive what appears to be spam from me frappi at wcoil.com
>>hawking some love potions or male enhancement thing-a-mer-bobby or 
>>whatever, please let me know about it. Since yesterday I have been 
>>getting thousands of Returned Mail , Mail Undeliverable, and so on bounce 
>>messages. And they are from as many different peoples email addresses due 
>>to a spammer latching onto and using my email address as the source for 
>>their spam. So far a sampling of the bounced emails has not shown any 
>>email addresses I am familiar with. A large amount of them are to foreign 
>>ISPs. Theres many different ways these low lifes get your email address. 
>>But I'd be interested to see if its anyone I know and what group of whom 
>>I know If any?! thats getting these emails thats supposedly from me. 
>>Might just narrow it down some. My guess is they are not spamming anyone 
>>I know.  My guess is some worm or whatever took it from one of my ebay 
>>listings. Or a web site somewhere.
>>  I am now running a spam blocker set up by my ISP for the first time in 
>> 10 plus years of internet useage for me. This will not help the poor 
>> soles getting the spam but at least I am not getting all the returned 
>> mail notices.
>>And yes I am constantly running virus programs, and adaware.
>>
>>Thanks, Mark
>
>
>--
>Steve W.
>Near Cooperstown, New York
>
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