A few months ago, I made a short-sighted comment that all the trouble that many of you seemed to put into spam avoidance hardly seemed worth the trouble, as it was simpler to just delete the few pieces I got each day.
Of course reality soon caught up with me and I started receiving an enormous amount of spam, so I accepted a kind offer from Karl Winkelmann and he sent me a bunch of mail actions to fight the problem. For a while, these mail actions worked and sent over half the spam to my deleted mail folder. Of course I still had to look at the titles and senders to make sure I wasn't deleting something important to me, but at least I didn't have to delete twice- once from the in-box and then again from the deleted mail folder. Recently I became aware that almost no spam was being filtered to my deleted mail folder. Does this mean that the spam slugs have adapted, and all my mail actions are meaningless? If this is so, then I'm back where I started, and am unwilling to be constantly engaged in modifying mail actions to keep up with the problem. Its easier to just scan and delete. BTW, if anyone is about to recommend Spam Sieve to me, I'm still using 9.2.2 so it is not a solution for me. However, spam may be what finally pushes me to OS X even though I don't have another reason to go there. Meanwhile, I'm afraid to go on a scheduled 2 week bike tour in Provence. If I can't get internet access fairly often to use my web mail to clean out my server space, I'm afraid it will soon be totally filled and I'll never see the few valuable posts that I do get. Bill McIntyre San Clemente, CA ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
