Alex Fisher wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:29, Webmaster wrote:
I received two digests within the last 24 hours that was mostly spam and
scams. I thought you guys had a filter? If so, why is 60%-80% junk? Please
do something about this.
I receive nearly a hundred E-mails a day as I subscribe to OOo.org and a
couple of other mail lists. In addition I answer E-mails from my clients
and colleagues. I get enough junk as it is. I do not have time to skim
through a half a dozen messages in these digests that are mostly ads,
Nigerian scams or PayPal and eBay phishing scams.
And 90% of which bypass moderation etc.
Actually, I'm confused... I get single emails (I refuse to use digests,
they're too hard to reply to), and in the last 3 weeks, I have received
precisely zero spam/scam/phising emails from this list. Perhaps it is Gmail's
filters (but I doubt it, since I check the spam bucket regularly), but more
likely something to do with the digest itself.
Fact is (I just checked), in the space of the last 14 days I have received
only 22 emails from this list. Of those, two were spam.
So, as I said, I'm baffled. How is it that others receive so much junk? The
one common thing I've noticed is that they appear to all be using the digest
mode, but I am using individual emails (which are filtered into a separate
folder at this end).
I sent this request before and was told that the person in charge of this
list filters this stuff out. If so, how does it wind up in the digest?
If this continues I may be forced to unsubscribe from the list. It is
really offensive.
Thank You.
i get individual e-mails, at least 8 in 10 of which are scams or spam.
