The majority of my blatant, uninvited spam is caught with a high level of reliability.
Instead, what makes e-mail less pleasant for me is mass-mail from companies I've dealt with that don't seem to acknowledge the "unsubscribe" button. Warren "Tray" Torrance On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 09:39, Ryan McCain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hardly. I can’t remember the last time I unknowingly opened more than 5 > spam messages in a single week. > > Ryan McCain > Northrop Grumman Corporation > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 225.505.3832 > > Registered Linux User #364609 > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Dustin Puryear > *Sent:* Friday, June 04, 2010 9:34 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [brlug-general] Has spam killed the Internet? > > > > A philosophical question.. > > > > I recently sent someone I know an email about catching up and got busy > afterwards and so didn’t respond very promptly, and then got the following: > > > > … > > Automated form touch letters. Nice, Dustin. > > > > I'm spam listing your domain to this address. > > > > You can contact me via another technology, if you actually want to > interact. > > … > > > > It took me a few days to get what he meant, and now that I do I wonder if > spam has really made Internet users this jaded? More broadly put, has spam > really killed email? > > > > --- > > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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