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Re: Off Topic - SPAM



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>Don't all email programs do this?

Sure.

>The few that are not filtered I delete without reading..
>No sweat, ignore the stuff and keep trading..

But the Mark Gilks of the world have your real Email.
One list member told me privately he received 100+
virus attacks in the last week. Not spam. I guess he
needs a military strength titanium delete key.

BW



>From: Neal Hughes <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Bill Wynne" <tradewynne@xxxxxxxxxxx>, maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx,        
>omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Off Topic - SPAM
>Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:10:49 -0800
>
>
>I use Eudora. You can define custom filters in Eudora.
>
>Most of my spam is automatically filtered to a junk
>mailbox which I never read.
>
>Don't all email programs do this?
>
>The few that are not filtered I delete without reading..
>No sweat, ignore the stuff and keep trading..
>
>-Neal.
>
>At 08:58 AM 12/5/2001 -0800, Bill Wynne wrote:
>>>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>>>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>>>eventually became entirely overrun with spam
>>
>>It was bad, but it's much better of late: spam is diverted to a junk
>>folder 99%+.
>>
>>>Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>>>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder.
>>
>>But Yahoo is VERY slow. Even with trouble this last
>>week at Hotmail it's still usually faster than Yahoo.
>>
>>BW
>>
>>
>>>From: Max Pierson <maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: Off Topic - SPAM
>>>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:21:59 -0800 (PST)
>>>
>>>Jody
>>>
>>>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>>>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>>>eventually became entirely overrun with spam so I use
>>>it now for my throwaway email address and I never
>>>check it. Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>>>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder. Makes
>>>it easy to select which ones not to open, you can just
>>>read the headings and ignore most of them. After
>>>taking these steps there doesn't seem to be much
>>>reason to fight the "SPAM War", there are a lot of
>>>terminally cranky people around to do that.
>>>
>>>Max
>>>
>>>"The race may not always go to the swift nor the battle to the strong,
>>>but it is the way to bet"
>>
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