Hey - Tony, That's getting back to being serious now At the moment I'm getting a quantity of investment advice emails, I just can't believe that it's worth investing anything on advice from a source that has to disguise itself, and its message in order to get past the spam checkers
But there must be some who do - otherwise why is the effort put into sending this rubbish JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: Re: So many bank accounts to keep safe > At 08/22/2006, Andy Medina wrote: > >Whoa whoa whoa [I do everything in threes :) ] I did NOT "diss" > >Tony...Read the OP from Lou... it was in jest. > > I never felt dis'd, so it's all good. The OP was in jest, so I > replied in kind. I added the [/sarcasm] tag to make it plain that > the preceding paragraph was in jest; well I thought it was plain, > anyway. The only thing I said in seriousness was comment about the > sad part being how many people fall for those scams. > > I regards to Wayne's reluctance to report anything to SpamCop, I > certainly see his point. If they are publishing a list of IPs from > which spam was received, what if it was a dynamic IP? If a provider > blocks that IP based on the SpamCop list, the poor soul that gets it > next may find himself SOL. It's even worse if a provider decides to > block an entire domain based on that report. It's fruitless anyway, > because the spammer is just going to move on to another address. I > think that methodology hurts far more people than it helps. > > Spam, like the junk in my snail-mailbox, is a fact of life. You can > filter and delete it, but you are never going to stop it any more > than you can hold back the tide with a broom. > > -- > Tony Lowe, The HapMaster > What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about? > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
