You've been reading too many tangents lately Rob :)
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:28:56 +1200
Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 2:36 pm, Rik Tindall wrote:
Here's another reason:
When this thread broke out I was on webmail, which I frequently do to
ping the spam before POP takes the time to retrieve it (reducing said
time). How to I know what is spam to delete?
My home computer uses Spamassassin which probably gets more than half of the
SPAM.
There's no problem once it's here at all - Thunderbird filters fine. The
issue is to reduce the phone-line time needed to clear the pop server
before said filtering. Webmail & deletion makes a satisfying change from
thumb-twiddling, coz u start reading the interesting stuff on the way
thru, then the download is much quicker (80% spam was my last count).
I'm sure more people than Ross would back me up that dialup issues are
still live (3-9pm I was backup/reinstalling ME+OSS/AV for clients today.
Why? Winmodem/time leaves no choice. vs a $1660 Dell order cancelled :).
Seems to me if we meet the lowest common denominator needs on data
limits first, then we can't go wrong. Blocking all attachments
mechanically is a problem as there's occasional menu.lst fstab etc
configs that it can be simplest to just show.
To be honest, for me, the email size is miniscule compared with the total
download traffic in this household.
Still not for all, ma & pa comms eg. Geeks are exceptions, but tend to
forget that.
Rik
