Hello Roger To be honest, I don’t think most people realise just how much work does get done to try and stay ahead of the game, or, at the very least, keep pace with it! Yes, Spam, Ham and other junk are the curse of my life. I spend a lot of time every day amending filters, blacklisting sites and IP addresses, and so it goes on. It’s actually become so bad that I have had to configure a “Friends” system. In theory, it should mean that unless I either initiate an E-Mail to an external third party, or unless I, or one of those for whom I provide mail accounts, initiates an entry into their white list, an external sender who is unknown is supposed to receive a “Friends” challenge. Unfortunately, that means interacting visually with one of those images which cause us so many issues. However, I have worked around that to a degree by adding a few sentences to the outgoing message which unknown senders receive. Basically I invite them to write to my iCloud address and alert me to the fact that they are blind. Although I haven’t said exactly that in my message. All it says is “If you can’t deal with the images”, but that’s what it means. Yes, I realise that is a very clunky way of doing things. But, unfortunately, I really didn’t have another workable alternative.
I am in discussions with the server developers to see if we can’t do as so many sites do these days, offer an audio alternative. That would permit me to tighten things up considerably, and would make the Friends system far more reliable. ======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: Twitter: @maciosaccess • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 29 May 2018, at 05:55, Roger Firman <ro...@golden-chord.com> wrote: Hello Gordon, Obviously much hidden work goes on behind the scenes. Spam is a real curse isn’t it. Kind regards, Roger.
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