>>Huh, what about my privacy getting these things in the first place,
>>wasting my time, money and patience with them?
>
>Once you know the source you can block it / delete it, with your
email
>software, or not even download it from your ISP. Yet this can go on
for
>ever ... better as suggested that ISP's filter out the rogue emails
in
>the first place. Which they can/could do ... yet this has
implications
>for other things too, like the 'freedom' of the net, etc.
Freedom is a concept best used by responsible societies. If M$ was
silly enough to design these systems to be able to carry viruses in
the first place (even though the facility was meant for something more
legitimate) then ...
Anyway, I do use my email software to block what its capable of. Once
I receive an email I didn't want from someone, I can simply tell my
email software to either not download it or even to delete it off the
ISP's server. Sadly, I have to put up with downloading a 100K work or
virus first, look at the email address, then tell my software to block
further ones. Gneerally, they never aarrive fromt he ssame place
twice.
Freedom of the net (to engage in virus/pornography/hacking/political
extremism etc etc???) versus filtering out certain activities by
software which can be set up not to invade privacy for genuine emails?
No question.
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Dilwyn Jones
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