Hello Allie, Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 11:03:19 AM, you wrote, and I heavily snipped as we can talk about this till the cows come home <lol>:
ACM> In <mid:5494997034.20021112031849@;freeuk.com>, ACM> Barry2 [B] wrote:' B>> The difference is that the rubbish isn't sent to me at all - I B>> consider it a complete waste of bandwidth to transfer megabytes B>> of data onto my PC just to then dump it in the bin !!! ACM> If it will end up saving on-line time and your time then why not? Overall on-line time is hours per session anyway so it's not the actual waste of time that's the issue, more the principal of keeping the SPAM away. B>> Time isn't the issue at all ACM> Ok. I didn't realize this. It certainly is for me. One of the ACM> terrible things about spam for me is that it gets in my way. If I ACM> can keep them getting in my way at a minimum without losing ACM> legitimate mail then I'll choose that route. Exactly - We also are annoyed by SPAM so have chosen not to allow the stuff into our systems at all. TB! allows us to do this very neatly :-) There is always the other side of the fight too, i.e. Viruses and Trojans. We all know that there are new exploits being worked on daily and what we considered safe once is not necessarily going to stay that way. So the secondary reason for pre-scanning the headers is to spot suspicious looking headers etc.. a healthy dose of North of England suspicion works wonders here < lol > Anything we are not expecting is looked at closely - even the expected mail is checked to see if it *rings true* - after all, just because we are careful doesn't mean folks who might have our e-mail addresses on their systems are equally as careful ?? I realise that many folks would take all this to be just too much hassle and in an ideal world I'd agree, but we aren't in that ideal world and until that day dawns ( if ever ) then we'll continue to exercise the greatest caution with e-mail and on-line activities. As you agree - each to their own and effectively it's a situation where everybody is right but just do it differently. Merely outlining our particular way of doing it :-) We have a joke over here that may amuse ( or confuse ) but there was a man in the middle of London who was painting his house bright yellow. When asked why he did this he replied, "To keep the man eating Tigers away!!". When told there wasn't any man eating Tigers for thousands of miles from London he replied, "I know ... good stuff isn't it ??" and carried on painting. -- Best regards, Barry2 Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
