Thank you for the information, Clint. I will keep this in
mind, but I
think maybe I'll either try to do something in Outlook first
or switch
to Thunderbird. Seems easier. Lol. 
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pcworks imagicomm.com [mailto:owner-pcworksimagicomm.com]
On Behalf Of Clint - OrpheusComputing.com &
ComputersCustomBuilt.com
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:40 AM
To: pcworksimagicomm.com
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Webhosting (was Who is Lisa Schnepf?)
>I don't understand how making a website or getting
>a domain name is supposed to help me? Clint,
>please explain?
I thought I explained that already Lisa, see this again:
http://www.mail-a
rchive.com/pcworksimagicomm.com/msg12921.html
"The suggestions I previously gave you is a starting
point (about your
ISP). If you don't have a website, you can get one and get
it hosted
for really cheap. A domain name (plus hosting by with
whomever you
register it) for about $1.99, but the hosting may be a bit
more. A
domain name for about $6.95-$8.95, then really GOOD hosting
for about
$4.95 a month (get one that uses the cPanel hosting
software). The
purpose of that would be your domain would have as many
email addresses
as you wanted, yours to delete and create at will, and
FILTERED by
cPanel's "Email filters" to which you can create
up to 999 email filters
blocking anything you chose in the header, subject, or
message body."
See the last sentence above. To explain further: with a
website hosted
by a company that uses the "cPanel" type of
software, you can create up
to 999 email addresses AT ONCE. You can also, at any time
you want,
delete ones that are being attacked, and create new ones
(again, up to
999 at the same time). Even better, is their "Email
filters" which
allows one to also create up to (I'm not sure how many)
email filters.
I have about 850 of them now. You can block any number, IP
address,
partial IP address, word, words or phrases in the message
headers,
subject line, or message body. You never even have to see
or deal with
these blocked emails.
So for one example, if you create the address
lisa(at)yourdomainname.com
and it starts being attacked from let's say, UCE from (no
surprise) the
RIPE region, (which is the Europe area), like from
82.123.123.123, you
can add a filter to block all email from that IP. If it
continues from
that same IP range (and it will), you can delete that one
and make one
for 82.123.123.*** which means that one will block all email
from that
IP range 82.123.123.(0-255), where as the last IP block is
the wildcard
and would block 82.123.123.1 all the way through
82.123.123.255. If it
still continues from OTHER 82. prefix IP addresses, then you
can delete
that one and block EVERYTHING that begins with 82., so that
means
82.***.***.*** will be blocked where *** stands for 1-255
(which I have
been forced to do, along with dozens of other entire IP
blocks).
Then you can also do the same with any URL, or word(s) or
phrase. When
you keep getting attacked by the same type of email with
"those certain
words" in it (and we all know what they are), and if
the emails are
coming from DIFFERENT IP regions (and they do), you can make
a filter to
block "that or those certain word(s)" in the
subject or email body.
If you get fed up with filters, and/or it's an address you
created that
is not subscribed to a bunch of things and wouldn't be any
problem to
delete, just delete the address
"lisa(at)yourdomainname.com" and create
any new one "lisa2(at)yourdomainname.com" or
"whatever(at)yourdomainname.com". Then (if you
choose the
option) any email sent to the old address you will never
receive (and
will be bounced back to the sender).
"cPanel" is just an interface, a control panel
where you access your
website's functions and features. Here's an example of how
one looks:
http://ehostpro
s.com/images/xskin.gif . (There are many themes from
which to choose, you just tell your hosts which one you
want). In that
particular theme, in your case with email, you'd click the
"Main
manager" and in that area is where you'd add/delete
email addresses and
add/delete email filters.
You don't even have to create a website or webpage, you can
just leave
up the blank page or default page and only use the email.
There also
may be some totally free hosts out there that offer the
cPanel package
with multiple email address options and features.
Look at the "Starter" package here, only $2.99 a
month and it has the
full-featured cPanel options. http://ehos
tpros.com/hosting/hosting.html
It's really a great idea, and worth it IMO to have TOTAL
control over
your email addresses. -Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusCom
puting.com http://www.Comput
ersCustomBuilt.com
http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics
-Sales.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Schnepf"
Hi John,
I am willing to listen to advice. What I don't appreciate
is people
like Hugh who just want to ban me from the list. He hasn't
tried to
help. He just wants me gone. I am not as computer literate
as some of
you, that is why I'm on the list - to learn. I don't
understand how
making a website or getting a domain name is supposed to
help me? Clint,
please explain? I am going to uninstall Comodo Antispam.
Happy, Hugh?
Lisa
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