Spam email
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Spam email
Don't know about you but I am getting a lot of spam email.
And it's just a waste of my time to check every email from whom I received it, (I don't want to delete emails who are really meant for me) and delete those spam emails.
I think there is a law about to be passed which takes care of these spammers.
In the meantime, people think about a way to deal with these spammers.
I read this in a computermagazine.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/pennyblack/
What do you think of it and do you get a lot of spam-email and what do you do to prevent from getting spam-email.
And it's just a waste of my time to check every email from whom I received it, (I don't want to delete emails who are really meant for me) and delete those spam emails.
I think there is a law about to be passed which takes care of these spammers.
In the meantime, people think about a way to deal with these spammers.
I read this in a computermagazine.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/pennyblack/
What do you think of it and do you get a lot of spam-email and what do you do to prevent from getting spam-email.
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Hallo CJ:
Hope you are surviving the snow storm I have been reading about this morning.
As Steve and Doug will tell you, I am the last person in the world that should be trying to answer computer questions but if I keep it non-technical maybe I can give some opinions.
My experience with running anti-virus programs has been in the main pretty positive. My experience with anti-spam programs, which I guess are part of the program of your ISP, has not been a good experience. I have AOL version 9.0 and it is apparently very vigorous in it's anti-spam. Much more so than earlier versions. As an example, I can no longer receive e-mail notification from f150online through AOL but can do so through my two other ISPs.
Aside from that issue, 9.0 has a spam reporting flag that lets me tell them that a particular address is spam. I never hear from that sender again. It also has a separate mail box for what AOL considers spam based on their criteria. At least I think so as I have not really fiddled with the parameters in the spam instructions area.
That is causing me no end of problems as perhaps half of my legitimate emails go into that mailbox instead of the regular one so I end up having to go through both. I can flag a legitimate sender and it then goes into the regular mailbox but that is a real pain.
While it is also a pain to delete spam, I have come to the conclusion it may be a better way to go than to try to tell your spam filter mechanism what you want and don't want as you don't know what criterea to use.
I am not that big a user and 50 emails a day is a big day for me so my experience may not be valid here. If I hit the computer 5-6 times a day it is a pretty quick excercise to delete the obvious.
I have not hit the various links that have been posted the last couple of days on viruses and spam so maybe some of my observations are covered by experts. If not, that is sort of where I am on the problem
Bill
Hope you are surviving the snow storm I have been reading about this morning.
As Steve and Doug will tell you, I am the last person in the world that should be trying to answer computer questions but if I keep it non-technical maybe I can give some opinions.
My experience with running anti-virus programs has been in the main pretty positive. My experience with anti-spam programs, which I guess are part of the program of your ISP, has not been a good experience. I have AOL version 9.0 and it is apparently very vigorous in it's anti-spam. Much more so than earlier versions. As an example, I can no longer receive e-mail notification from f150online through AOL but can do so through my two other ISPs.
Aside from that issue, 9.0 has a spam reporting flag that lets me tell them that a particular address is spam. I never hear from that sender again. It also has a separate mail box for what AOL considers spam based on their criteria. At least I think so as I have not really fiddled with the parameters in the spam instructions area.
That is causing me no end of problems as perhaps half of my legitimate emails go into that mailbox instead of the regular one so I end up having to go through both. I can flag a legitimate sender and it then goes into the regular mailbox but that is a real pain.
While it is also a pain to delete spam, I have come to the conclusion it may be a better way to go than to try to tell your spam filter mechanism what you want and don't want as you don't know what criterea to use.
I am not that big a user and 50 emails a day is a big day for me so my experience may not be valid here. If I hit the computer 5-6 times a day it is a pretty quick excercise to delete the obvious.
I have not hit the various links that have been posted the last couple of days on viruses and spam so maybe some of my observations are covered by experts. If not, that is sort of where I am on the problem
Bill
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Originally posted by Bill Murray
Hallo CJ:
Hope you are surviving the snow storm I have been reading about this morning.
While it is also a pain to delete spam, I have come to the conclusion it may be a better way to go than to try to tell your spam filter mechanism what you want and don't want as you don't know what criterea to use.
I am not that big a user and 50 emails a day is a big day for me so my experience may not be valid here. If I hit the computer 5-6 times a day it is a pretty quick excercise to delete the obvious.
Bill
Hallo CJ:
Hope you are surviving the snow storm I have been reading about this morning.
While it is also a pain to delete spam, I have come to the conclusion it may be a better way to go than to try to tell your spam filter mechanism what you want and don't want as you don't know what criterea to use.
I am not that big a user and 50 emails a day is a big day for me so my experience may not be valid here. If I hit the computer 5-6 times a day it is a pretty quick excercise to delete the obvious.
Bill
Thawed already.
Snow was not a big problem in the West here.
But it did cause some problems in the rest of the country.
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2 isp's here with a spam filter at one of them.
About 100 emails per day.
Like you I am checking multiple times a day.
Still annoying.
