hank alrich wrote:
Chris Hornbeck wrote:


I don't think I've ever gotten spam from Usenet posting.


21 messages this morning in the box for the address from which I post,
20 of which are either spam or virii laden.

I take no precautions at all to avoid spam and have always
used my real email address on usenet and everywhere else.
When spam started getting problematic I got MailWasher Pro
and spend all of maybe ten minutes a day dealing with the
spam that results from my cavalier attitude toward it.
(I've never caught a virus either in 14 years online but
that's another story.)

MailWasher blocks nothing from getting to you but does a
fine job of identifying which is and which isn't spam at
your ISP mailbox and with a single click allows you to
delete all the spam at the ISP without downloading it. From
what it catagorizes I find it necessasary to change about 2
or 3 percent of incoming from delete to keep or vice versa
and it learns from those corrections as well as several spam
databases. I do have to scan it all visually by topic and
sender to correct miscatorigization but that takes very
little time.

It keeps a log of what it has done and allows you to
retrieve anything it has deleted back to your ISP mailbox
(can't figure out how it does that.) Not sure how far back
that goes but I went looking for a missing response that I
had allowed to be deleted two weeks prior and retrieved it
back into my incoming stream.


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

In article writes:

Even that's not really a big problem. A properly-designed web page
should show up OK whether or not JavaScript is enabled.

"Properly designed" is the operative word here. But on some pages, you
can't see anything without Javascript. I think Sears is one.

The point is, obscuring e-mail addresses on web pages so that
spammers can't get them (in any practical way) is a solved problem.

Yeah, for the spammers, too.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:35:20 -0500, agent86
wrote:

Chris Hornbeck wrote:

I don't think I've ever gotten spam from Usenet posting. The most
likely modern case is from a friend including me in a wide email
posting. And those seem to decay over very long time constants.

Friends don't make friends spam targets! Sniff. Sniff. Give what you
can, dear hearts.


Yep, and with friends like that, who needs a proctologist.

I believe that was originally a pun (or is yours an intentional
variation on the pun?):

With friends like that, who needs enemas.


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People using Mailwasher with dialup connections may want to be aware
that I've created a small program to deal with the dialup problem in
Mailwasher. Using it signifigantly eliminates spam, particularly for
dialup users. See: http://home.earthlink.net/~mwauto/

play-on wrote:
On 11 Dec 2004 10:24:37 -0500, (Mike Rivers)
wrote:


In article
writes:

Frankly, I couldn't give a crap less about "goo goo groopz." I
rue
the day they bought the archives. Their "goo goo groopz" portal
has
unleashed a whole new batch of morons onto Usenet, and the spam,
as
well as lamer traffic, have increased prodigeously.

People said the same thing about AOL. And they say the same thing
every September. Deal with it or start your own forum.

DON'T BE A LAMER! GET AN NNTP ACCOUNT AND A NEWSREADER LIKE A
GROWN
PERSON!

I don't use one, and I'm a groan person.

Yeah you do groan and moan a lot. ;^)

Al

hi

TEST POST -

several recent posts I made via Google did not "make it".
blah ... blah ... blah

On 23 Jan 2005 23:16:05 -0800, "RD Jones" wrote:

TEST POST -

several recent posts I made via Google did not "make it".
blah ... blah ... blah snip

THat's because "goo goo groopz" sucks. Get an NNTP account (your ISP
probably gives you one for free, anyway) and get a newsreader proggy.

dB