Re: [Killietalk] killitalk generated SPAM & AT&T

["Vincent Sbarra" <killydad at hotmail_com>]

Kenneth
You might try opening one of the free email accounts (i.e..: hotmail, gmail 
etc.). You can use it for killietalk only as I do.
Vince
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Combs" <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:55 AM
Subject: [Killietalk] killitalk generated SPAM & AT&T


> If anyone out there has a email address ending with @sbcglobal.net  (or 
> any other SBC/AT&T mail realm) and is also successfully receiving 
> Killietalk msgs, please tell me how your msgs are getting past AT&T/SBC's 
> SPAM filters...
>
> ...thus far, no help from the very cordial but under-trained/paid "Tyrone 
> Jackson" (with the suspiciously deep E.Indian accent) at "American" 
> Telephone & Telegraph tech support  ....it appears my mail clients SPAM 
> filters are controlled by AT&T's servers and can't be universally modified 
> by me or by "Tyrone Jackson" 4000 mi away in Bombay.<apparently>... is it 
> feasible for the KT MOD's to leverage any change to a major ISP's SPAM 
> filters here?
> ...for now; the only way I can receive Killietalk now is to manually 
> rescue each message one by one from AT&T's Internet mail "SPAM" folders...
>
> Venting....and gheez, the SPAM'ers are really getting outta hand (and 
> sophisticated)?...seems the "normal" SPAM headers using the keywords: 
> "size", performance, fat, baldness, weight, refinance, et et,  have been 
> replaced by: Aquarium, aphyosem, fish, et ..moreover the SPAM msgs 
> themselves are now unscannable images/pictures instead of scannable text 
> (circumventing my mail clients ability to filter locally)..devious lil 
> jokers ....it's becoming a real PITA trying to locate the 4-5 KT msgs 
> amongst the 60+ "performance/re-fi" garbage
> ...are they scanning the Killietalk threads to find camouflaged subject 
> headers? ... (only other explanation is someone told the marketeers about 
> my overweight, "undersized", fat, bald and broke "arse")
>
> ...if anyone has figured out how to navigate through these issues already, 
> please post ... just trying to avoid using SBC's mail alias service to 
> post here, or permanently changing my email address
>
> signed & venting:  Freezemizer at SBCglobal_net    ...for you spammers: "He's 
> Mr. White Christmas/He's Mr. Snow/He's Mr. Icicle/He's Mr. 20-Below"
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