I'm using Outlook 2007 and it blocks spam fine. The 2003 version, not so much!
John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] MailWasher... Bill Arnold wrote: > >>> The real problem is Big Business likes spam, and they get what they >>> want with surprising and increasing regularity. >> Huh? I mean, the first part of this sentence. >> >> Why does Big Business like spam? Ford? IBM? Wal-Mart? General >> Electric? Dupont? Con-Ed? > > > Not all Big Business, just some, like financial industries (loans, > mortgages and insurance), and then there's the drug industry. It's these I dunno. I don't really see Citicorp or Bank of A or Chase's head honchoes gathering together in smoke-filled rooms late at night cackling, "heh, Microsoft just released another bug-filled version of IE! We're going to be able to take over another billion Windows PCs so we can churn mortgage loans!" The problems that the phishing scams, initiated by spam, are negligible by comparison, right? And the guys at Merck or Geneentech doing the same thing... rubbing one hand over other because of the obscene profits that they're making because they can sell their excess pill inventory to shady distributors in Canada and Bulgaria and Viet Nam and reap windfall profits, all due to the cost-free marketing afforded by spam. > particular industry's turf/share/piece of the pie. Others Biggies have > different turfs, with relatively little interest/involvement in spam by > comparison, but they aren't going to complain so long as nobody > complains about their slices. It's a nice dance in their view, but > average people lose in several crucially important ways, and hobbling > email's potential is definitely high on that list. Spam is only affecting the little guy, right? All those folks at Big Businesses don't have any interest in being able to communicate via email, right? They're plenty happy to continue communicating via FedEx and fax machines, taking days and weeks to do what their competition does in minutes. Makes sense to me. Whil [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
