On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:21:32 -0700, G J Feig wrote: > Oh, yes it does. You make that statement without knowing the > volume I got before blocking and the volume I now get, plus, I can > easily go check to see "how many Mbytes has been blocked today"...<g>
>> As you can see. >> Blocking eMails from particular ISPs or entire domains is not the answer. > Maybe in your case, just ONE case, here, this has been deleterious. > ....and...maybe it IS an imposition by your ISP... Where it is my ISP > setting it up for ME to do the "whole domain blocking" then it is > NOT deleterious, and not an imposition. People should be able to have things the way they want them. If you want domains blocked, then block away. I don't want any domains blocked by my ISP. I have good friends and relatives with hotmail, yahoo, msn, aol accounts. Maybe I want to get messages from Russia or India or China or who knows where. That's the way I want it. But if spam gets your knickers in a twist, then blocking the most popular free account domains might indeed limit the amount of spam you get. If that's where it's coming from, I don't know. Sounds reasonable. But, holy smokes, are you guys really getting megabytes of spam daily? I'd like to hear a firm figure from someone who knows for sure--not just a wild guess. Maybe if I got that much I'd want to do something. But right now, I don't care. My ISP offers "spam filtering" but I declined to have it turned on because they wouldn't tell me the criteria used to filter. Not even in a vague, non-specific way. I just didn't like that at all. My viewpoint was not appreciated by the ISP. They couldn't believe I didn't want it. What happens to an email arriving from a blocked domain? Is it bounced back with an explanation? Would the legitimate user know that his email had been blocked? And why? That's why I declined the "spam filtering" offer. It just seemed like useless rigamarol to me that might make it harder to communicate with people that I want to hear from. Quite frankly I have a hard time understanding why spam gets such a reaction from some people. Hardly more than a very low level nusicance to me, if that. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
