On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:24:25 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > 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/ How's this? [OPENDOS 7.01] C:\>sf.exe -lhstwa arachne\mail\*.cnm Listing directory: C:\ARACHNE\MAIL\ Name mask: *.CNM 38008663.CNM 2063 11-22-2002 18:44:22 -----A-- 38008664.CNM 20974 11-22-2002 18:44:26 -----A-- 38008668.CNM 3557 11-22-2002 18:44:32 -----A-- 38008671.CNM 3398 11-22-2002 18:44:34 -----A-- 38008673.CNM 1343 11-22-2002 18:44:36 -----A-- 38008674.CNM 3087 11-22-2002 18:44:36 -----A-- 38008675.CNM 1842 11-22-2002 18:44:36 -----A-- 38008676.CNM 6304 11-22-2002 18:44:38 -----A-- 38008678.CNM 2620 11-22-2002 18:44:38 -----A-- 38008680.CNM 3422 11-22-2002 18:44:40 -----A-- 38008690.CNM 2410 11-22-2002 18:44:50 -----A-- Sub-Directories: 0 51020 bytes used in 11 files. 11 were "real" eMails. _____________________________ [OPENDOS 7.01] C:\>sf.exe -lhstwa arachne\mail\trash\*.mes Listing directory: C:\ARACHNE\MAIL\TRASH\ Name mask: *.MES 38008662.MES 4460 11-22-2002 18:44:22 -----A-- 38008665.MES 9651 11-22-2002 18:44:28 -----A-- 38008666.MES 7598 11-22-2002 18:44:30 -----A-- 38008667.MES 4151 11-22-2002 18:44:30 -----A-- 38008669.MES 2527 11-22-2002 18:44:32 -----A-- 38008670.MES 2025 11-22-2002 18:44:32 -----A-- 38008672.MES 7328 11-22-2002 18:44:34 -----A-- 38008677.MES 2216 11-22-2002 18:44:38 -----A-- 38008679.MES 2516 11-22-2002 18:44:40 -----A-- 38008681.MES 5853 11-22-2002 18:44:42 -----A-- 38008682.MES 1664 11-22-2002 18:44:42 -----A-- 38008683.MES 9298 11-22-2002 18:44:44 -----A-- 38008684.MES 2163 11-22-2002 18:44:44 -----A-- 38008685.MES 10708 11-22-2002 18:44:46 -----A-- 38008686.MES 7179 11-22-2002 18:44:46 -----A-- 38008687.MES 3322 11-22-2002 18:44:48 -----A-- 38008688.MES 5031 11-22-2002 18:44:48 -----A-- 38008689.MES 1939 11-22-2002 18:44:50 -----A-- 38008691.MES 5169 11-22-2002 18:44:50 -----A-- 38008692.MES 2366 11-22-2002 18:44:52 -----A-- Sub-Directories: 0 97164 bytes used in 20 files. 20 were spam. _____________________ Why such a huge number all-of-a-sudden? (it had dropped to about 5 per day) You guessed it.... I tried SpamCop again. :(((( <yelling at self> STUPID, STUPID, STUPID !!!!! </yelling at self> But still, I stick with the same method. Delete 'em, forget 'em. Well.... at least that would have worked had you not asked for a real figure instead of a "wild guess". <g g g g> -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
