Darth Masq, Sith Lord of Philosophy ([info]masqthephlsphr) wrote,
@ 2003-08-20 11:21:00
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Current mood: disgruntled

It's spam day at Yahoo!
I wake up this morning to 15 emails in my Yahoo! in box. I haven't had 15 emails in my inbox since the deep, deep days of the Fanged Four Fic.

None of the emails I got today is by anyone I want to read, with the exception of an almost hidden LJ response from [info]scrollgirl. None of the emails, save Scroll's, is by anyone I know. And they are all empty, some with attachments.

This happens from time to time, there's some weird software bug/virus thingee that sends you an empty email from someone with some funky meaningless subject line, and somehow gets into your address book and spawns a series of empty emails to people on your list (apologies if you get one), then gets into your correspondant's addresss books and spawns more empty emails.

Usually, I get one every few weeks. Today, it's 30+.

Grr. Argh.

Update: Computer Guy at work has sent out an email instructing us all in the use of email filters. I am now dilegently applying his instructions to my Yahoo! account. Take that, "Wicked screensaver" and "My details"!!

Update to my update: Be careful about applying a "send to trash" filter to some spam. If you set up a filter to trash any email with a subject line that contains the words "Thank you" (in an attempt to hose the spam "Re: Thank you") it will trash any email you get after that with the words "Thank you" in it. Not that I get tons of emails with that subject line, but y'know, I do on occassion, get a fan letter or two.



Oh, and today is the last day in amazon.co.uk's dispatching window for my Harry Potter book set. So far, no dispatching....


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[info]knullabulla
2003-08-20 01:04 pm UTC (link)
What were Computer Guy's tips?

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Well, he sent them for the Eudora application on the Macintosh
[info]masqthephlsphr
2003-08-20 01:13 pm UTC (link)
But I was able to translate them into Yahoo! mail easily enough.

The idea is to create a mail filter (if your mail application has one, most do) that looks for subject lines that contain certain key words like "My details", "Your details", "Wicked screensaver", "Your application", or whatever the standard annoying spam email subject lines you're getting, then tell it to put any mail with that subject line directly into the trash instead of the inbox. I now have four filters set up with these subject lines in them.

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Sheri...
[info]masqthephlsphr
2003-08-20 02:14 pm UTC (link)
That icon is either going to make me dizzy or howl like a wolf.

Or both. ; )

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Hee!
[info]knullabulla
2003-08-21 01:23 pm UTC (link)
I had shrunk a much larger animated gif down for that icon. As soon as I figure out how to slow down the frame rate, I will. That should make it appear a little less wobbly, I hope. :)

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Yikes
[info]masqthephlsphr
2003-08-21 01:26 pm UTC (link)
Don't view that animated gif and eat at the same time. Could lead to hurling!

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Note to Self...
[info]knullabulla
2003-08-21 01:34 pm UTC (link)
"Send Masq care package of Dramamine before posting in her journal"

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