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Using Thunderbird 52.5 in Windows 10, I have one company that is
consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca, they are an online furniture company, I have created rules from a message numerous times, I have added them to my hosts file but they still keep coming through. my hosts file seems OK as I can no longer reach there web site They are very annoying as they send them every few days. Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. Thanks, Rene |
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On 12/6/2017 5:32 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
Using Thunderbird 52.5 in Windows 10, I have one company that is consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca, they are an online furniture company, I have created rules from a message numerous times, I have added them to my hosts file but they still keep coming through. my hosts file seems OK as I can no longer reach there web site They are very annoying as they send them every few days. Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. Thanks, Rene Mark them as junk on the webmail part of the ISP. Assuming that your ISP works like ATT, and you can access your email on their webmail site and then down load it to TB. My primary filter is the Webmail site, and then I use TB screening. I very rarely get spam into my inbox. -- 2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
Using Thunderbird 52.5 in Windows 10, I have one company that is consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca, they are an online furniture company, I have created rules from a message numerous times, I have added them to my hosts file but they still keep coming through. my hosts file seems OK as I can no longer reach there web site They are very annoying as they send them every few days. Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. Thanks, Rene Mail takes an indirect route. It uses servers. The servers talk to one another. transport some_server ------------- some_server / \ / \ wayfair.ca rene.ca So in that diagram, adding wayfair.ca to your HOSTS file, won't do anything. Because a packet didn't come straight from wayfair.ca to your place. Instead, you need to have a spam filter, somewhere in that path. The spam filter puts unwanted messages in a box other than Inbox. It does this, just in case the message had some value after all, and there was a "false positive". Occasionally, you visit your spam bucket, to see if any messages were inadvertently put there. ******* I happened to remember one kind of spam filter is called a Bayesian filter, and used that term to do a search. https://www.lifewire.com/turn-on-spa...erbird-1173123 A "dumb" spam filter, you manually insert rules. Nobody wants to do that, but it's "satisfying" to club a regular offender that way. A "smart" filter, you click the message you don't want and tell the filter "I don't like this one", and after a while, it learns all the characteristics of the unwanted messages. So rather than attempt to manually construct a rule, you "teach" the filter which ones are bad, and it does all the math for you. Bayesian filters are far from perfect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_...spam_filtering "Depending on the implementation, Bayesian spam filtering may be susceptible to Bayesian poisoning, a technique used by spammers in an attempt to degrade the effectiveness of spam filters that rely on Bayesian filtering. A spammer practicing Bayesian poisoning will send out emails with large amounts of legitimate text (gathered from legitimate news or literary sources). Spammer tactics include insertion of random innocuous words that are not normally associated with spam, thereby decreasing the email's spam score, making it more likely to slip past a Bayesian spam filter." So a word salad is one way to battle back against Bayesian. And I did receive some "stock trading spam" at work, where the "message" to be delivered, was made from a series of GIFs. So there were no words in the message to trigger a filter. It's pretty hard to Bayesian a message with nothing in it. If the company in question is legit, they won't resort to word salad, and after a few clicks, you'll have seen the last wayward furniture advert. They'll go into your spam bucket, and there will be a nice orderly list of identical looking spams from your furniture place in that list. Paul |
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On 06 Dec 2017, Rene Lamontagne wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10: Using Thunderbird 52.5 in Windows 10, I have one company that is consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca, they are an online furniture company, I have created rules from a message numerous times, I have added them to my hosts file but they still keep coming through. my hosts file seems OK as I can no longer reach there web site They are very annoying as they send them every few days. Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. In your experience, are they a legitimate, honest company? If so, their emails should have an "unsubscribe" link attached to each email. If you are convinced that the emails are really coming from them and not from an imposter, use that link to unsubsribe from their mailings. They should stop within a few days. I see they also have a phone number, (800) 508-1737. Perhaps they can unsubscribe you on your verbal say-so. If all else fails, use your email service's webmail interface to create a filter that will delete their messages or mark them as spam. That would probably be more reliable and permanent than using Thunderbird itself for filtering. Don't bother with your hosts file - it will have no effect in this case. The email is coming to you from your email service's sever, not directly from Wayfair. Unless you want to block yourself from ever reaching their web site, remove that entry. |
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On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:19:20 -0500, Nil
wrote: In your experience, are they a legitimate, honest company? If so, their emails should have an "unsubscribe" link attached to each email. If you are convinced that the emails are really coming from them and not from an imposter, use that link to unsubsribe from their mailings. Be very careful! An unsubscribe link does *not* guarantee that they are a "legitimate, honest company." In fact, just the opposite is sometimes true--the "unsubscribe link" does not unsubscribe you, but just verifies to the spammer that the address it sent the message to is an actual live address. You should not use the unsubscribe link unless you already know that it's a "legitimate, honest company." |
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"Rene Lamontagne" wrote
| consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca Did you set to delete from POP server and set to apply it to the relevant in folder? Another possibility, as others have mentioned, is that the email is not actually from them. Drag an email to the desktop, open it in Notepad, and look in the first 20 or so lines for "From: ". It might be from a company that does their mailing for them. If you can't filter From then you'll have to find something unique in the subject, body, etc. You might be able to do something like filter "Wayfair" in the body. |
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On 06/12/2017 22:32, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
Is there any way I can stop them once and for all. Yes. I can tell you how to do it if you beg me!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alternatively, my servant will help you. He is going by the name of "Cows are nice". It should tell you something about his ability to imagine new ideas!!! He is an American so Canadians would love him. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On 06 Dec 2017, Ken Blake wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10: On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:19:20 -0500, Nil wrote: In your experience, are they a legitimate, honest company? If so, their emails should have an "unsubscribe" link attached to each email. If you are convinced that the emails are really coming from them and not from an imposter, use that link to unsubsribe from their mailings. Be very careful! An unsubscribe link does *not* guarantee that they are a "legitimate, honest company." In fact, just the opposite is sometimes true--the "unsubscribe link" does not unsubscribe you, but just verifies to the spammer that the address it sent the message to is an actual live address. You should not use the unsubscribe link unless you already know that it's a "legitimate, honest company." You're right, of course... and you're repeating what I had just said. It does bear repeating, I guess. |
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On 12/06/2017 6:10 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Rene Lamontagne" wrote | consistently sending me E-mail, The company is called Wayfair.ca Did you set to delete from POP server and set to apply it to the relevant in folder? Another possibility, as others have mentioned, is that the email is not actually from them. Drag an email to the desktop, open it in Notepad, and look in the first 20 or so lines for "From: ". It might be from a company that does their mailing for them. If you can't filter From then you'll have to find something unique in the subject, body, etc. You might be able to do something like filter "Wayfair" in the body. Thank you all very much for the valuable information that you took time to send to me. I will now try and implement some of these cures and am sure with all this info I will be able to put an end to this unwanted pushing. It will take a few days to set up and wait and see what worked, I will report when I have a definite answer. Rene |
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On 06 Dec 2017, Rene Lamontagne wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10: It will take a few days to set up and wait and see what worked, I will report when I have a definite answer. Call 'em on the phone. The whole thing should be over in less than 5 minutes. |
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On 12/06/2017 7:46 PM, Nil wrote:
On 06 Dec 2017, Rene Lamontagne wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: It will take a few days to set up and wait and see what worked, I will report when I have a definite answer. Call 'em on the phone. The whole thing should be over in less than 5 minutes. Yes Nil, I will call them on the phone tomorrow. Thanks, Rene |
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"Rene Lamontagne" wrote | Call 'em on the phone. The whole thing should be over in less than 5 | minutes. | Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. The person answering the phone is probably just there to take orders. I called CVS to stop spam robocalling over the phone, calling me to pick up a prescription I didn't order. And it took two times just to do that. Just to get a real person at the local branch to actually, *really*, do whatever was needed to stop the calls. I started giving Home Depot a dummy phone number when I order doors and windows because otherwise they robocall me every morning at 8AM to tell me I should go online for "important updates"! They never call to tell me when the order is in, but they robocall trying to get me to go online. This week I sent an email to a company called Ecobee that sells thermostats. I just dropped them a note to say their website works poorly and I couldn't find the docs I needed. So far I've received 5 emails. One said, "Thanks. We'll tell the Web designers about your note." The other 4 are nonsensical auto-spam to update me on the current status of my "support ticket". Their email is handled by a company called Zendesk. It's just a manic, mindless bot system that tries to seem responsive without actually doing anything. For the most part there's no one minding the store. But there are lots of bots. (Though it does seem that someone at least read my email at Ecobee... or Zendesk... or somewhere.) The common thread there is that it's just become effortless and cost-free to harass people constantly, hoping to make an extra sale along the way. At the same time, there's rarely a genuine human at the other end who's authorized and knowledgeable enough to deal with things. So maybe a phone call will work. I wouldn't do it myself because I wouldn't want them getting my phone #. |
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On 12/06/2017 8:34 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Rene Lamontagne" wrote | Call 'em on the phone. The whole thing should be over in less than 5 | minutes. | Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. The person answering the phone is probably just there to take orders. I called CVS to stop spam robocalling over the phone, calling me to pick up a prescription I didn't order. And it took two times just to do that. Just to get a real person at the local branch to actually, *really*, do whatever was needed to stop the calls. I started giving Home Depot a dummy phone number when I order doors and windows because otherwise they robocall me every morning at 8AM to tell me I should go online for "important updates"! They never call to tell me when the order is in, but they robocall trying to get me to go online. This week I sent an email to a company called Ecobee that sells thermostats. I just dropped them a note to say their website works poorly and I couldn't find the docs I needed. So far I've received 5 emails. One said, "Thanks. We'll tell the Web designers about your note." The other 4 are nonsensical auto-spam to update me on the current status of my "support ticket". Their email is handled by a company called Zendesk. It's just a manic, mindless bot system that tries to seem responsive without actually doing anything. For the most part there's no one minding the store. But there are lots of bots. (Though it does seem that someone at least read my email at Ecobee... or Zendesk... or somewhere.) The common thread there is that it's just become effortless and cost-free to harass people constantly, hoping to make an extra sale along the way. At the same time, there's rarely a genuine human at the other end who's authorized and knowledgeable enough to deal with things. So maybe a phone call will work. I wouldn't do it myself because I wouldn't want them getting my phone #. I went to their website a while ago and under there privacy heading I found a place to actually unsubscribe (I Hope) so I gave it a try and we will see if that works. Oh yes, they are a legit online retailer so at least that helps. Rene |
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"Rene Lamontagne" wrote
| I went to their website a while ago and under there privacy heading I | found a place to actually unsubscribe (I Hope) so I gave it a try and we | will see if that works. | Oh yes, they are a legit online retailer so at least that helps. | Yes, I've heard of them before. Online home goods shopping for women. The unsubscribe might work. Though there's something not quite right about companies that spam you without asking and then say they'll stop if you ask them nicely. I find that even the ones who quit will start up again if I do business with them again. With most companies I just tell them that if I give them an email address it won't be a working address. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not. There's one building materials supplier for contractors, Harvey Industries, that won't take my order without an email address to send the order confirmation to! So I enable their email when I order something, then block it again and try to avoid buying from them. The sales people just don't understand that it alienates people. |
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On 12/07/2017 8:05 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Rene Lamontagne" wrote | I went to their website a while ago and under there privacy heading I | found a place to actually unsubscribe (I Hope) so I gave it a try and we | will see if that works. | Oh yes, they are a legit online retailer so at least that helps. | Yes, I've heard of them before. Online home goods shopping for women. The unsubscribe might work. Though there's something not quite right about companies that spam you without asking and then say they'll stop if you ask them nicely. I find that even the ones who quit will start up again if I do business with them again. With most companies I just tell them that if I give them an email address it won't be a working address. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not. There's one building materials supplier for contractors, Harvey Industries, that won't take my order without an email address to send the order confirmation to! So I enable their email when I order something, then block it again and try to avoid buying from them. The sales people just don't understand that it alienates people. OK, I phoned the company a little while ago and was connected to a very pleasant young lady within 5 minutes. I explained that I wanted to be unsubscribed because I did not need any home furnishings and did not even look at the emails, She said she understood and took my email address and would remove me from all email lists She sounded quite sincere. I thanked her and she wished me a happy Xmas holiday Season. A very nice experience. Rene |
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