On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:31:37 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > Hi Folks,
> Glenn wrote: >> Since stopping the SpamCop reporting. >> (and simply deleteing the offending SPAM) >> I now get only about 3 per week. > I have found the same phenomenon. Only the absolute numbers vary > from Glenn's experience (perhaps because my email address is rather more > widespread and exposed than his). >> You may draw your own conclusions from this. >> As for me.... no more SpamCop.<g> > Me too ! > Using spamcop, my email traffic actually increased by the number of > emails from ISPs telling me that they were an automated complaint robot, > and where to send spam complaints. > Spam is a fact of life if you have a widely advertised email address. > I have learned to live with spam and worms and virii and unsolicited > "newsletters", even offers of millions of dollars from Nigerian > con-artists. >> My current procedure is "two-fold". >> 1) delete it >> 2) forget it > I have acquired the experience and skill to do both at the same time. > I "delforeteget" them. :) > Michael's "right-click+Del" hotkey in Arachne make this a quick and > painless operation that I go through everytime I download email. Yes! "right-click+Del" also comes in handy to get rid of "Bloated-HTML-format-copy-of-text-message-included" eMails. I get quite a few of these from 2 of my 3 sisters. :( -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
