Helen Borrie wrote:

> Jason is talking about the spam that he gets in his own mailbox. I know
> what he's talking about, because I have two @... mailboxes and
> the spam and virus messages are appalling, about 200 per day sometimes.
>
> Personally, I think Jason should sack his ISP if they are not prepared to
> put spam and virus filters on. Most ISPs do so now.

Some how I can't help thinking I am being lucky. There is a lot of crap
coming in, but 50% of it is related to virus replies and Mozilla kicks
that straight into touch. Anything with an attachment gets flagged, and
I can see if I need to keep it. But the main help seems to be being
stupid, and replying to the 'remove' where they exist - or posting to
the linked website when 'remove' does not exist. In the past this was
thought to be a way of increasing spam, but my crude monitoring shows
that it does actually work. Perhaps these lists are realizing that if
people are opting out and they continue sending, then at some point a
lawyer might get involved :)

One filter that helped for quite a while was killing eMail from
microsoft at the ISP. At the height of the virus activity. Now if ISP's
simply stopped anything with a virus package in it and stopped sending
messages that they had stooped them .....

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Lester Caine
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