On 25 Jun 2007 at 15:23, Randolph Peters wrote: > Also, I haven't > seen very much SPAM lately. (Touch wood.) I guess my ISP is doing a > pretty good job. And I haven't seen very much of it on the Finale list > either.
About a month ago, I saw spam drop off by half, and now it's down to 1/3 of what it was just a couple of months ago. I don't know what's happening, but it's certain less than it once was. Maybe the spammers are finally purging my inactive email addresses (99% of my spam comes to my old bway.net accounts, which though still active, have not been used in public forums for more than 15 months). > Every time SPAM does get through to my email account I redirect it to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] your isp here] and it has been my impression that > this helps cut down on the junk that does get through. I would doubt this has any effect, because most of the FROM addresses on these are forged. I get bounces for spam that's been sent out under one of my email addresses, and someone complaining to my ISP would be wasting their time, as I didn't send it in the first place. You really have to read the headers of the email to know where the spam is coming from, and even then, it's tricky to distinguish forged headers from the real thing. The best thing to do with spam is NOTHING. Don't respond to it in any way, either reporting it to an ISP or unsubscribing. Just delete it. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
