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TrpltJanie
Cast Member



Posts: 1661
Registered: Aug 2002
  Posted 08-31-02 02:47 PM                


I'm so frustrated with what has happened in the past two weeks. I've been spammed constantly with infected e-mails---attachments with viruses--and I've complained and complained to AOL and to bbnPlanet.Net where ALL of the e-mails are coming from. The flow of these e-mails have slowed down somewhat and now I'm getting these two subject lines 90% of the time:

"End Nedstat Basic code"
"Returned mail: User unknown"<--problem is I never sent the mail out in the first place and I do not recognize the e-mail addys that was "returned".

There has to be a way to block these kind of e-mails because they're basically clogging up my mailbox.

Any pointers?

Thanks
Janie

The Curb Kicker
KatEnigma
Guest

Posts: 138
Registered: Aug 2002
  Posted 08-31-02 02:58 PM                
quote:
TrpltJanie wrote:


I'm so frustrated with what has happened in the past two weeks. I've been spammed constantly with infected e-mails---attachments with viruses--and I've complained and complained to AOL and to bbnPlanet.Net where ALL of the e-mails are coming from. The flow of these e-mails have slowed down somewhat and now I'm getting these two subject lines 90% of the time:

"End Nedstat Basic code"
"Returned mail: User unknown"<--problem is I never sent the mail out in the first place and I do not recognize the e-mail addys that was "returned".

There has to be a way to block these kind of e-mails because they're basically clogging up my mailbox.

Any pointers?

Thanks


It's been a while since I used AOL, but I know that if you go into mail preferences, you can block certain addresses, and/or only allow certain addresses. If you don't order things on-line, you can add in all the addresses of your friends, and only get mail from them, but I never did that because I couldn't predict where mail would come from if I ordered or registered for something.

Kat

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. We seek problems because we need their gifts." Richard Bach, Illusions
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