All this talk of SPAM and the lengths to which many of you go to filter it out has me puzzled. I'm currently getting about two pieces per day. Lately it seems to run to things like "Married but lonely" which comes as an html attachment which I trash, or invitations to go a url and check out photos of some guy's girlfriend who recently ditched him, couched in terms which I will not repeat here. I do not accept the invitation.
They seem to run in streaks- at other times they might be on other subjects, but they never amount to more than three to five per day, and they are usually fewer than that. Since so many of you seem to take so much trouble to filter SPAM, I assume you must get much more than I do. With the amount I receive, it would be more trouble to try to construct filters than it is to simpy delete it. What am I doing right? Why don't I get more SPAM? Doesn't anyone love me? :-) I have a firewall program called Net Barrier running in the background and I tend to forget its there, so I just opened it to see if it might be what is helping me. But in the filters section, there were no entries in the mail section. The banners section had lots of entries that were part of the default installation, but that wouldn't seem to have anything to do with SPAM mail. Might the lack of SPAM be related to my on-line habits? I'm trying to analyze what I do. It includes use of on-line banking, on-line brokerage with Schwab, reading on-line versions of the NY Times and Wall St. Journal and following whatever links that might lead me too, and surfing through government sites for economic information. I have been known to stop by the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition- would that explain the sexually oriented SPAM? If so, my wife tends to get more of that type than do I, and I can guarantee (I think :-) that she doesn't surf sites like that. Besides this list, the only other list to which I subscribe is a freedive list with about 600 subscribers worldwide. Don't get me wrong- I'm not complaining. But I'm just curious why so many of you seem to get so much stuff when I do not. And if I ever start to get more, I'd like to understand why. Bill McIntyre San Clemente, CA ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
