Per Witte wrote:
>Im having a spam rash now, the first in this series starting on Jul
4.
>Looking at my internet history the only unusual visit made in the
last
>three weeks was when I had visitors, on Jul 2, who used Hotmail and
>Yahoomail to read their email. Am I just being paranoid or is there a
>connection? Can I zap these guys somehow?
My wife stopped using her Hotmail account largely because she was
getting more spam and sex site adverts etc etc than ordinary email.
Much of the spam I get is either American get-rich-quick emails or
(like Norman Dunbar) african money laundering scams. There are
expensive filtering programs you can get, but you are probably better
off lobbying the EU to quickly implement the anti-spam rules where you
have to opt into it rather than put up with it. Sadly, the UK
government for one looks set to cripple this initiative before it
starts.
Once you've had email from some unsavoury sources, your software may
allow you to bar further emails from those addresses. The inbox
assistant in Lookout Excess for example will allow you to specify
rules, including emails 'from' an address, and one of the options is
not to even download it from your ISP's servers. When it works, it
works well (surprisingly for M$ stuff)
I've put a limit on email sizes on mine. Sadly, that got in the way of
QL Today's next issue, since Jochen sent me the cover page as a
graphics file and it exceeded the file size, but I knew nothing about
it until I got a warning message about a huge file stuck on the
server!!!
Jon Dent...hurry up and finish soql please so we can make decent email
software of our own!
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