Re: [OT] There are times when I really hate email :-(

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Mouser wrote:
> I hear what your saying Keith. I have one particular email address
> (something at mypersonaldomain.co.uk) that is completely bombarded by
spam,
> it has now reached something like 100 emails a day! McAfee tinned meat
> Killer does a very good job but I collect this address by POP3 from
our
> kitchen PC and to spend 5 mins waiting for it to download 500+ emails
at the
> weekend (Pretty much the only time I get chance to use that PC) just
to see
> the 3-4 real emails gets me mad!
> I have the Eclipse service to stop tinned meat switched on but that
appears
> to have zero effect :-(
> Unless someone knows of a solution I'm considering dumping the address
and
> letting people know its no longer in use.

I have being finding too much mail goes missing with my ISPs filter so have
deactivated it - was trapping around 300 spams a day. I dont know why they
cant
simply have it reject certain message encodings at the server level, theres
no
way I can read something coming in in chinese/korean which amounts to about
2/3rds of the spam. Filtering client side means that I have to wait like
you.

Leavign the PC on 24/7 helps, since it means that its coming in as a
trickle,
rather then a flood when I get around to checking it.


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