[24hoursupport] Re: Spam and other garbage
- From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:18:28 -0500
On Monday 06 October 2003 01:20 pm, you wrote:
I choose not to accept it. I won't live with it. Maybe there isn't a way to
effectively beat them, but I will *not* make it easy for them. Luckily I
have an ISP that allows me several email addresses, so I have some leeway -
although I haven't had to resort to deleting an address yet.. On my Window's
system, using Mailwasher, Calypso, (both with regular expressions filtering)
and some common sense, I simply don't get it. If I get two spam messages in
two months, it's a bad month. In Linux, KMail handles it all.
If you choose HTML mail and Outlook Express' wide open addressbook, you'll get
spam. Only a matter of time. If you use newsgroups with a newsreader that
won't allow you to spoof your address, you'll get nailed. If you visit porn,
warez, and game sites, you're busted. If you enter your email address to
every site that needs<?> it, then you're vulnerable. If you use IM's
(especially IRC chats), you can't stop it. If you just *have* to leave your
javascript and Windows scripting host running all the time, then it's easy
for them to farm your address. If you have your email address on your home
page, then you have no chance.
Email can be (virtually) spam free. You just have to decide what's more
important to you.
<snipped>
> I've given up. I have filters that detect 90% of their garbage
> and delete it automatically. And, thank heaven, I have
> anti-virus software and two-layer ISP protection as well.
> I'm resigned to just live with it until it goes away.
>
> Bill Lurie
>
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