Marta, Well, you got some Spam Talk... a little... from the group. Maybe others will share some Spam Talk with you, too. I thought that might be what you meant.
I use the filter built into my Mac's Mail system. It used to work really well. However,I had not re-trained it after my HD was replaced, and have now set it back on training. Otherwise, I go nuts moving messages that get into regular mail to Spam, and vice versa. So far, so good, since the new install of Panther a week or so ago. Mike On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > I mean Spam talk from our group, so I know more about the filters. I > never ever never ever open anything when the address is foreign to me. > This of course does not mean I make mistakes, but with my mail I > always look from whence it comes. So: SPAM TALK FROM OUR GURUS HERE, > as to avoid getting SPAM in the first place. > Marta > > On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:13, mikewatk wrote: > >> Marta, >> >> NO! You don't know what you are asking for when you say you could use >> some Spam talk. I have been getting many offers to refinance my home >> at 3.99%, meet hot lesbian partners, buy time-shares in property, get >> cheap prescription drugs, try Viagra (and similar products), join >> beastiality sites, etc. Even the things such as refinancing would >> surely not be with companies I could trust! >> >> I never got these things until I , ONE TIME, opened a pop-up ad and >> gave the site my E-mail address.... it had to do with some contest I >> had supposedly won... which couldn't be true... I hadn't entered one. >> I knew it was not going to turn out to be real; but I was curious as >> to how they would go about getting out of it! >> >> Then, I began to get Spam! And Spam begets Spam. You mustn't reply, >> even to tell them to stop... then they know you are reading it, and >> you get even more! (I tried that.) They sell your E-mail address to >> other sites, and it increases incrementally. DO NOT OPEN AND PLAY >> WITH ADS YOU DIDN'T SOLICIT! >> >> Spam doesn't Talk to you, as David Pogue or some sites do. There's no >> good information available on Spam sites. Anything you may want to >> know can be more pleasantly found on Google, or such. >> >> I'm hoping that mine is somehow lost in cyberspace! >> >> Mike >> >> >> On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >>> Bringing up Spam, do you people get a lot of it? I don't, at least >>> not anything i did not order or gave my name to receive mails, like >>> New york Times' e-mail ,BBC etc. I only received 2 emails in the >>> last several months I did not recognize the sender and of course >>> promptly deleted them. I did set up some filters, however, not >>> knowing what I am doing, or how they work, I am not sure how that >>> works, and I am never sure whether to put a mark in the place it >>> asks whether I want to trust my IP server's filters. I could do with >>> a little Spam Talk myself. >>> Marta >>> >>> On Dec 26, 2005, at 18:54, mikewatk wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Jerry Yeager, >>>> >>>> I don't understand why it would make a difference, but since you >>>> reinstalled my Panther system, I am not getting all the Spam that I >>>> was before. It's a welcome development, to say the least. But, I'm >>>> puzzled. My E-mail address didn't change. Why would this have >>>> happened? I was getting a bunch of it both before and after MacTown >>>> installed my new HD. If that didn't make a difference then, to what >>>> do you think I can give the credit now? >>>> >>>> Anyone else have any ideas? I'm not complaining... just curious. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >>>> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >>> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
