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Art101

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  1. Yes indeed, LKing. I'm pretty much done with Google in general, Gmail in particular, and will shut down the account. I use it in a limited capacity anyway, when I prefer not to reveal my real email address in online forms and stuff like that. Google's pernicious user tracking, lack of morality and ethics, the nonstop spam assault, the way Google helped turn the web into an evil strip mall from hell – I'm done. I've taken several steps to exorcize Google from my online life. 1. Google is no longer the default search engine on my browsers (switched to DuckDuckGo - which seems somewhat more trustworthy). 2. When using Google for anything (very rarely), I clear history, cookies, and cache when quitting my browser (usually Safari, sometimes Firefox, never Chrome). 3. If I'm feeling especially paranoid, I shut down my Mac, local WiFi router, internet connection, and go take a nap. The mail server for my real email address offers something Google does not: A simple method to block and blacklist incoming mail from any domain or country code (such as everything from rouge domains like OVH.net, for example). Their crap never hits my inbox. I know, I know, these methods will not completely save us from the ongoing spam/scam/phishing nightmare. They make me feel better, in the hope that maybe some day humankind will be free from money-grubbing spammers and corporate jerks. Probably not, but maybe. Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
  2. Why does Google allow a rogue domain like ovh.net rape millions of people on the www with nonstop spam? I'm just curious. Perhaps someone on this forum can enlighten me.
  3. OK. Take a deep, healing breath. The internet was the most important advance in human communication since the invention of the printing press. It was highjacked by money-grubbing spammers and corporate interests that don't give a flying f*ck about you or me. I give up. I'm done with this sh*t. I will no longer offer reports to SpamCop. Doing so is pointless. Amazonaws is evil. Amazonaws rapes my inbox with crap I did not ask for and do not want. Have a nice day,
  4. The torture never ends. The depth of my hatred for everything associated with Amazon and the Amazonaws nightmare is complete. Amazon will never suck one more penny from my bank account. F*ck Amazon. And f*ck bitly(dot)com, too, for enabling this nonstop spam rape. And probably Cisco Systems (the giant corporation that seems to have gobbled up Spamcop in order to render it completely useless). The Internet is dead. All hail the Internet.
  5. It's increasingly clear that amazonaws(dot)com is not simply incompetent. It's evil. The internet was the most important advance in human communication since the invention of the printing press. It's hijacked by spammers, phishers, massive money-grubbing corporate interests, governments that leverage it to keep us stupid and scared, and related nightmares. Every email I receive with amazonaws(dot)com anywhere in the full header is spam. Every single byte. All attempts to stop this online rape have failed. Repeated attempts to contact amazonaws "support" have failed. I repeat: Amazonaws(dot)com is not simply incompetent. It's evil. A long time ago, I thought reporting amazonaws(dot)com spam via spamcop might help stop the assault. Stupid me.
  6. Thanks, petzl... good info. We'll all bumble through the spam nightmare, thanks to services like Spamcop and Spamhaus. The fun never ends. [insert ironic emoji here] Totally off-topic (but maybe not)... good song by a longtime client/friend. Potential inspiration to maybe help brighten our days... http://www.fromthemoontotheearth.com/songpages/harvest-moon/ (website design by yours truly). Scroll down to the Soundcloud player thingamabob... In our sukkot of bone through this wondrous land we roam, ever lost — always home.
  7. It's so sad. The Internet — the most important advance in human communication since the invention of the printing press — is highjacked by crazy, money-grubbing, jerkoff spammers.
  8. I know this thread is a year old, but perhaps the following is still useful. I recently received and reported spam that resolves to ovh.net. I looked them up at The Spamhaus Project. Their SBL Advisory found 74 listings listings for IPs under the responsibility of ovh.net — starting from today and going back to October 2018. See: https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ovh.net My mail host has a section where users can build and edit a personal blacklist. I added @ovh.net (the @ symbol tells the server to block everything associated with them, not just specific email addresses). Works great.
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