I have VICTORY!

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:42 am

Yes! Victory at last over SPAM!

Last week for some reason the amount of spam being sent to my E-mail address I use for my comic had reached the breaking point.

Where as usually I get only 50-100 spam a day I was getting over 500 spam a day. The filters on my E-mail account simply could not keep up with all the creative way spammers tried to defeat them.

Then it occured to me. What if, instead of trying to scan my e-mail for spam and delete it, I scanned my e-mail for messages I wanted and deleted everything else.

So I have a password now which must be included in the subject header of any email sent to me. It must say "TENTACLE" somewhere in the subject header or the e-mail will be automatically deleted unread. I posted notices on my page in the news section, the FAQ and the forums that all e-mail sent to me must have this password or go unread. I was already sure I was probably missing out on plenty of legitimate e-mails using the old method as I would just dump the entire inbox rather than trying in vain to search through the mountain of spam for the real letters.

The experiment has so far proven to be a huge success. This morning there were a dozen legitimate e-mails in my inbox, all with the word "tentacle" in the subject header, and there was not a single spam to be seen. My spam filter, instead of being a huge bloated dictionary of things to seek and destroy is a simple one line if[SUBJECT]does not contain[TENTACLE]then[TRASH].

All spam gets trashed and anyone who doesn't pay enough attention to my site to read the notice on how to e-mail me gets their messages trashed too which, all things considered, is probably just as well.

No more searching for real messages. No more bulky spam filters. No more spam. I'm surprised I didn't think of this before.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:45 am

Now that's thinking!

Mecharm · Post by **Mecharm** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:06 am

*applauses*

Jaster! · Post by **Jaster!** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:26 am

"APPLAUSE" ISN'T A VERB, YOU FOOL!

You have doomed us all.

*Deleted*

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:32 am

Damnit, Charm!

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:34 am

It's *applauds* you fool!

Mecharm · Post by **Mecharm** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:34 am

You all seem to forget I'm the Internet's Angel of Death.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:51 am

mecharm wrote:You all seem to forget I'm the Internet's Angel of Death.

No, you're the Internet's Angel of Debt. You fool! You've lead us all to ruin!

Mecharm · Post by **Mecharm** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:53 am

..what?
*reads business card*
SHIT! I've been had!

Taiwanimation · Post by **Taiwanimation** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:28 pm

Now if you still get junk mail, I'd be quite disturbed.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:06 pm

New Message!

To: Ghastly
From: jrobin6547@hotmail.com
Subject: Looking for hentai tentacle pokemon rape kawaii schoolgirls teen?

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:49 pm

As usual, Ghastly, you are an inspiration to us all.

ZOMBIE USER 14998 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 14998** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:10 pm

It works great if you're just comunicating with live humans, but if you ever need to get an automated reply from somewhere, (ie Keenspace) you might have problems.

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:55 pm

THAT'S NOT SPAM!

Those emails you don't want are advertisements! Spam is COMPLETELY different!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 4:01 pm

Everything Terror seems to say is pretty much spam, tho.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go respond to every single thread on the forum whether or not I have anything to say.

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 4:02 pm

Now THAT'S spam.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 4:08 pm

geoduck wrote:It works great if you're just comunicating with live humans, but if you ever need to get an automated reply from somewhere, (ie Keenspace) you might have problems.

Those e-mails go to a different account.

Mecharm · Post by **Mecharm** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:57 pm

VileTerror wrote:Now THAT'S spam.

That was the joke.

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:59 pm

That was the truth.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:04 pm

Sortelli wrote:Everything Terror seems to say is pretty much spam, tho.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go respond to every single thread on the forum whether or not I have anything to say.

Hm... Knowing you, I actually wish you would.

Anyway, Ghastly, it's so good idea, you should try to patent it or something.
And even if you still get spam, at least it's interesting.

(P.S. Advertisement is just an advertisement, but 100 advertisements a day really are spam, not for the same reasons VT would do, but still spam)

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