Barry2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Monday, November 11, 2002, 7:18:49 PM

> Again, just is a waste of bandwidth and to scan through such a folder
> would take longer than to go through the headers in the Mail
> Dispatcher ... not that it's the time angle I'm bothered about, but
> surely it's more tedious to go through a whole folder full of Spam
> just to weed out what you'd pick up in a matter of seconds before you
> downloaded ??

> I guess everyone has their own way of using TB! - and for me that is
> one of its great strengths - but I can assure you that pre-scanning
> the headers first isn't tedious in the slightest - on a dial-up
> connection it can be more tedious just watching all that rubbish come
> down the phone line < lol >

> Each to their own - but the original question was about how to
> efficiently fight Spam .... the way we do it here there is ZERO spam
> on our systems and the only mail we get is the mail we *want* to get.
> As a Spam / Virus fighting methodology that takes some beating < lol >

> NB - just in case .. we also run up to date AV and Firewall too :-)

Aren't you concerned about losing legitimate mail in the spam screen?


Mitch Wagner


Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build  2600
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