[24hoursupport] Re: Spam and other garbage
- From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:32:27 -0500
I think that's the best we can do with no help from the authorities who could
actually effect change. Too bad that the advertising industry is a huge and
profitable lobby.
On Monday 06 October 2003 06:22 pm, you wrote:
> Ron,
<Snipped, although pertinent>
> After years of chasing SPAM, tracking down the origin, and reporting abuse,
> I finally gave up. I've surrendered because this war can not be won by the
> individual. Now I simply focus on filtering in an effort to trap 100
> percent SPAM with no legit emails ever getting caught in my filter. To
> date I'm getting better then 95 percent trapped and less then 1 percent
> legit mail ever gets caught in my filters. I back up my blacklists and
> whitelists just as often as my most important data so if I ever lose stuff
> I can restore my filters easily. I must say, for getting 200 to 300 SPAM
> messages per week, I'm quite at peace with it for now.
>
> Spider
> Http://web.tampabay.rr.com/spider1
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:24hoursupport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Allen
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:58 PM
> To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [24hoursupport] Re: Spam and other garbage
>
>
> Hi Tricia,
>
> This is perhaps the most infuriating thing about spam to me. The jerks that
> spam wouldn't do it if they weren't actually making money doing it.
> Therefore, there must be total idiots in this world that are responding to
> spam and making it worthwhile for the spammers to do. Those people are as
> much a part of the problem as the spammers themselves, maybe more so, as
> far as I'm concerned.
>
> If people would simply never, ever respond to spam it would go away. As
> long as there are even a few fools that will buy the junk the spammers
> peddle, we all have to suffer. We're all held hostage by the (very) lowest
> common denominator among us.
>
> Ron
>
>
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