Apparantly I’m a spammer!

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Several people have now told me that they are finding e-mails from us in their spam folders. Any ideas why? We use a relict address from the long extinct @lineone.net. Could that have anything to do with it?

Cheers,

Rod

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hi Rod, you and about twenty or thirty of my MEW authors are 'spammers' but they are generally emails from spoofed email addresses, I assume this caused by people getting viruses that use their address book.

Usually they say something like 'hey Neil' followed by a link that you would be mad to click on…

Neil

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Ah, but Roderick, are you a Metric or Imperial spammer? Or adjustable?

Geoff

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

As Neil mentioned it's usually because some one has something undesirable on there machine that is rifling through email addresses. It can come about from several sources other the viruses – free software that does something worthwhile and isn't open source can be a culprit or anything else of that nature.

It's also possible for some one who knows your email address to play around in a rather malicious way as people will assume that you have a problem on your machine. The headers on the email might give a clue if some one has done that. Some just do it for fun.

John

–

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Posted by Geoff Theasby on 01/11/2016 18:58:35:

Ah, but Roderick, are you a Metric or Imperial spammer? Or adjustable

Not sure, I'll leave it open ended for the moment…

[Ian WelfordParticipant @ianwelford58739]

Don't let it wrench you away from the forum Rod !

[WatfordParticipant @watford]

There's a bit of a ring here.

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Socket to me, Rod…

Geoff

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I can't get a handle on this crazy torque. This thread is full of loose nuts.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Dreadful puns. Send for a Moderator – we need a thread-locker.

[Diane CarneyModerator @dianecarney30678]

What's all this wit worth?

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 02/11/2016 09:18:25:

Dreadful puns. Send for a Moderator – we need a thread-locker.

Haven't got down to the nuts and bolts of Rod's problem really so many more posts needed.

John

–

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Diane Carney on 02/11/2016 09:27:54:

What's all this wit worth?

Best one yet. Surely that must be the acme!

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Has this thread stripped it's gears or thrown a wobbly?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Diane Carney on 02/11/2016 09:27:54:

What's all this wit worth?

<applause>

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Foreigners and colonials who don't appreciate the appalling puns in this thread may wish to know that British Standard Fine humour is an acquired taste.

Cheers,

Dave

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 02/11/2016 16:27:19:

Foreigners and colonials who don't appreciate the appalling puns in this thread may wish to know that British Standard Fine humour is an acquired taste.

I came fitted with coarse as standard.

Neil

[Enough!Participant @enough]

I nominate Diane for an honorary BA.

[JAParticipant @ja]

Perhaps the BSP should be on the Stoptober thread?

JA

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

As I have now been referred to as a knit-wit, (Thank you, Neil ) I shall leave you with the following thought:

Model Engineering was once prescribed as therapy for nervousness and hysteria (as evidenced by the febrile posts above) Many new engineers find this hard to believe because, until you get good at it, it actually seems to cause those problems…

Geoff

Edited By Geoff Theasby on 02/11/2016 17:21:44

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Having a failing memory, cannot remember the original angle on this thread!

At least we appear to be unified in our humour, (that's fine by me)

Howard

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

And there's me thinking Spam was fried in strips for lunch in the fifties as I remembered it – not threaded

Chris

[Author]

Posts