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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu Jan 29th at 8:21pm 2004

I am getting just insane amounts of these e-mails with these attachments, it's just nutty. I checked my mail for the first time in two hours and found about forty of em. But they're all coming in my cashcarstar.hlgaming.com address, not my home school address. Anyone know a good way that I can stop this general craziness from flooding my inbox? Is there any possibility edgenetwork will get on the ball and stop these things from flying through their mail servers? This bandwith expenditure has got to be killing them.



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jan 29th at 8:37pm 2004

Download mailwasher and create some filters.



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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Thu Jan 29th at 8:59pm 2004

yeah, mailwasher = the key to solving your problems. [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jan 29th at 9:20pm 2004

If you have a hotmail account, you'll need the pro version.

If not, the regular version will do just fine.





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Posted by Sim on Thu Jan 29th at 9:46pm 2004

Is this the new worm thingy that's meant to attack MS and SCO sites? [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jan 29th at 11:24pm 2004

Yes, but I have had like.. 2 emails with the virus... I think the more people who are likely to open random attatchements you know, the more likely you are to get the virus sent to you. Everybody I know who would have done that has taken me of their email list, as every time they sent me useless 'reply 10 times or hotmail closes down' forwards (or similar), I emailed them back saying that these emails are a total waste of time



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu Jan 29th at 11:34pm 2004

I've talked to like five people with my hlgaming address, ever. I would really be interested to know if other people with hlgaming sites are having similar problems. ReNo? Gimpinthesink? Anyway, I just slapped a filter in on Outlook to kill the mail, doesn't cut down on bandwith so edgenetwork's still getting fuxored, but it saves time on my end.



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Posted by Monqui on Thu Jan 29th at 11:57pm 2004

Every once in a while I'll get a load of spam pulled from my PHL account... But then I decided to just pull the plug and simply blacklist anything from that account.

You win some, you lose some, I suppose. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 30th at 2:18am 2004

? posted by Monqui
Every once in a while I'll get a load of spam pulled from my PHL account...

Oh, the old old Hornetking days? And you still have your address! Hehe I think they deleted mine after abusing the 'site update' system...





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Posted by fraggard on Fri Jan 30th at 2:31am 2004

? posted by Cash Car Star
I would really be interested to know if other people with hlgaming sites are having similar problems.

I'm not having any problems with mine. I'm guessing, you've put this address out on many forums. I suppose that could be the reason. I dunno...





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Posted by Monqui on Fri Jan 30th at 3:39am 2004

So wait- how did you abuse the "site update" system?

And yeah, its kinda sad. I think they just sorta forgot about me and stuff. It still works, but I think, in its entire life, I've gotten like 3 e-mails that I actually wanted. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Jan 30th at 10:03am 2004

When you say abuse the site update thing, what did you actually dp?



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 30th at 2:11pm 2004

Well when I moved the site they failed to mention it (along with all the other news I sent), so I felt that perhaps my e-mails weren't getting through and hence mass spammage of the 'site update' system was the way fowards. Sadly it only shows one update/site, but it's a good way to get random, unfiltered messages onto the website...



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Posted by Gorbachev on Sat Jan 31st at 12:20am 2004

Haven't recieved any of these yet on any of my 5 or so email accounts. [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Jan 31st at 9:34am 2004

Just a follow up, but it looks like edgenetwork took a dive... Perhaps all the bandwith expenditure caught up with them or maybe they're setting something up to protect the site but whatever, it's not up right now.





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Posted by Leperous on Sat Jan 31st at 10:54am 2004

I think they're owned by UGO now, so it's more likely that it's just server problems than running out of money



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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 31st at 10:08pm 2004

I have the same problem with my hotmail address, and used to have it with my eidosnet address until I decided the only stuff I was getting through it was spam anyway so I might as well just delete it. My @elva-mod and @deadpan-studios addresses don't get spam whatsoever as I keep them for important email stuff only, but my hotmail gets a tonne. I'm afraid I don't bother with my @hlgaming address so I cant tell you if its getting the spam or not. [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Sat Jan 31st at 10:09pm 2004

I haven't used outlook for my emails since the last virus that got sent to my hlgaming e-mail address about 100 times a day cos norten kept poping up and it pissed me off after 2 days so I use the squirrel mail that edgenetwork has as there web mail thingy.

But I havent been able to check my mail to day cos its down at the min.

[addsig]



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Posted by SuperCrazy on Sat Jan 31st at 10:14pm 2004

I'm literally getting infected mails faster than I can download them on my dial-up. Applying a filter in Outlook to delete all messages with attachments from the server isn't working, so I might have to look for a different program if this keeps up.



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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Jan 31st at 10:15pm 2004

Use Mailwasher ... it just checks your mail on the server, and only downloads the headers ... 1 simple filter + check mail every 1 minute and all those mails will be teh gone in no time.






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