[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
I can't directly help you with your request, but I can tell you that as someone who has several of my email addresses out there in the public, that the last few months things have gone absolutely crazy with spam. I do not directly publish my email address in a normally readable format, but a

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Sleep
On 31/03/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why my email address shows on the replies I made to this board but other people's don't, but the result has been that I am being inundated with spam. The sender's email address appears on every message, not just yours, in the 'from:' header

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Sam McCandless
Thanks, Tony, for doing what you can about the spam problem. And please feel free to suggest what we might do to help make it less of a problem. It's actually only a very minor nuisance for me, but I have no idea why that is, unless it's because I've been on Mac's and done what I can to help

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread gary
I try to steer the Mac users I know to open source multi-platform programs like Thunderbird for email, Firefox for browsing, etc. It makes it easier to help them. Thunderbird has a simple filtering scheme (rules). There was a recent hackers event that broke into a Mac Air in two minutes using

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Sleep
On 31/03/2008 Sam McCandless wrote: And please feel free to suggest what we might do to help make it less of a problem. Most ISP's offer spam filtering, usually based on Spamassassin or similar, and that works well. Sometimes free, sometimes an additional low cost. Always worth asking because

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Sleep
On 31/03/2008 gary wrote: I try to steer the Mac users I know to open source multi-platform programs like Thunderbird for email, Firefox for browsing, etc. Strongly seconded even for us PC victims too :) -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk

[filmscanners] Re: spam magnet

2008-03-31 Thread
Tony Sleep wrote: On 31/03/2008 Sam McCandless wrote: And please feel free to suggest what we might do to help make it less of a problem. Most ISP's offer spam filtering, usually based on Spamassassin or similar, and that works well. Sometimes free, sometimes an additional low cost. Always