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 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html