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 Post subject: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:04 pm  (#1) 
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Anyone else getting spam blitzed by AutoFX graphics software emails? They've been sending an email every 5 minutes.

Pretty spendy ($329) for software I have never even heard of.

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:28 pm  (#2) 
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Never heard of them. I've not received any emails from them. Have you gone to your email website and blocked the offender?

Here's a link I found: http://www.autofx.com/

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:02 pm  (#3) 
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Dang, they're proud of that $oftware. :hehe
I think I'll pass. :gimp

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:56 pm  (#4) 
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I didn't see a unsubscribe link or anything to click to stop them. Probably not looking in the right place, but, I don't ever recall subscribing to them. New to me.

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:15 pm  (#5) 
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I'm talking about going to your email webmail site. Like go to gmail, or your IP webmail and mark it as spam. Whatever email program it's coming into.

Here's a partial picture of Google mail's Inbox. Click the box next to the offending email so it has an X in it, then click the Spam button. You won't get it in your Inbox anymore.

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I have Thunderbird email and I have my webmail accounts coming into Thunderbird: gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, but marking them as spam doesn't stop them from going to those webmail accounts. They need to be stopped at the source, in the webmail account directly. I occasionally get a spam email in my IP (Frontier.com) email, but I still have to go to the Frontier webmail account to stop them entirely. Frontier knocks them out there.

When I mark them as junk in my Thunderbird account, that doesn't tell the webmail account that it is spam. I like to get them where they are coming in.

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:19 pm  (#6) 
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Yes. I did that. I'm sure they didn't intend to spam me, someone probably cron'ed the email system poorly and forgot to check the time settings.

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 Post subject: Re: AutoFX Software
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:32 pm  (#7) 
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I don't see any links to the webmaster or a contact link on the website. NOT NICE!

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