Comments on: There are no curse words strong enough

By: Garen

Garen — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:53:27 +0000

This happened to me earlier this year – possibly Feb or Mar – and it is only just dying down (fingers crossed). Funnily enough, out of all the 1000s of emails I only got one person emailing me telling me to ‘stop sending them spam’ but resulted in my puttign a note on my website about spam not coming from me (as people will often check the domain name). The trouble is, it put my address onto more spam lists, and now I get phishing galore from “Barclays” and someone out there really thinks I need Viagra (possibly connected with the Barclays, as Kenneth Williams might say…). I was being so careful with my address too!

Another upsurge in spam occurred when someone put me on their email-christmas-card-list, and decided they wanted everyone to know how many friends they had in their address book, including all the ‘famous people’, and so sent it CC instead of the more honourable BCC. Moan over and out.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:50:11 +0000

someone who looks a bit like me (balding, skinny, white, glasses – it’s not hard really) wandering around Birmingham telling random strangers their name is Pete Ashton, slapping them around the face and running off

Hmmm, I guess I’d better stop doing that then… ;-)

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:37:45 +0000

Popefelchers.

By: SM

SM — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:51:08 +0000

Funnily enough, there was a question about exactly this in yesterdays Guardian : http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/askjack/2006/10/badly_returned_spams.html Not much of a solution though.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:21:42 +0000

Does it generally subside after a day or two?

I’ve had this problem for over a year, now. I was told when I initially asked people about it that it was just something that happens and that you just have to put up with it.

Need I worry?

~ Russ L

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:56:00 +0000

Aparently a Joe Job is when this is done maliciously, so I'm hoping it's not one of them and simple the less catchy Backscatter of email spam. Either way it's not proving as hard to filter as I thought. Still a fucking pain though...

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:03:22 +0000

wankfucking cuntydouchebags.

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:51:03 +0000

It’s called a joejob, and there’s stuff all you can do about it really. It’s happened to me at least three times, and is going on from MiB at the moment too. Since I get around 500 spam emails a day, I hardly notice these days.

The first time it happened, I had a bit of a panic. Now, I just wait, which is pretty much all you can do. Chances are, it’ll subside in a day or two. To cope with your overflowing in box you could just discard everything until it stops, but that’s a little drastic. Alternatively, discard everything that isn’t addressed to pete@. For me, since nearly all bounce messages include the original email, I find my existing spam filters handle nearly all of it for me anyway.

Wait, it’s all you can do. And if you ever met someone who tell you their job is in internet market, you beat the living crap out of them.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:20:55 +0000

Sent you an email yesterday regarding NZ. Did you get it? We need your help again! Love, L

By: Andrew Luke

Andrew Luke — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:09:41 +0000

Those windowlickers will never have sperm the strength of envelope adhesive. I hope they get chips planted in their heads causing them pain for every moment theey’re not clearly helping people.