"Spam and chips"
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
Outlook 2003 does a good job. It has had some false positives* but I have it set on Aggresive and since I only have 70 a day scanning through is easy enough. :blush: I turned the spam filter off in the first few weeks of emailing Lena. Bugger me but was I tense about loosing one of her emails. I did not even trust the safe senders list :-D * Vikram and Brian, your emails got spam tagged! You naughty spammers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Outlook 2003 does a good job. It has had some false positives* but I have it set on Aggresive and since I only have 70 a day scanning through is easy enough. :blush: I turned the spam filter off in the first few weeks of emailing Lena. Bugger me but was I tense about loosing one of her emails. I did not even trust the safe senders list :-D * Vikram and Brian, your emails got spam tagged! You naughty spammers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: :blush: I turned the spam filter off in the first few weeks of emailing Lena. Bugger me but was I tense about loosing one of her emails. I did not even trust the safe senders list mmm. I know that feeling, Double checking the spam folder just to make sure you have missed an email from your love. Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I get 200-300 a day across several accounts. I've recently closed one, and switched two other to go through Spam Interceptor si20.com[^] Spam has been driving me nuts, and even with excellent spam filtering like spamassasin and spambayes it is still a problem. Spam filtering still requires that you check all email flagged as spam which takes time, and you still get the occassional spam come through. Spam Interceptor combines the option to use challenge-response on email it isn't sure about, which is very nice, but you still have to check all of the spam. So I've pretty much made up my mind to run a challenge-response system with whitelists and blacklists on my own mail server, and forget all about spam filtering. Spam is just going to continue to get worse and right now I see this as being the *only* solution. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com
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I get 200-300 a day across several accounts. I've recently closed one, and switched two other to go through Spam Interceptor si20.com[^] Spam has been driving me nuts, and even with excellent spam filtering like spamassasin and spambayes it is still a problem. Spam filtering still requires that you check all email flagged as spam which takes time, and you still get the occassional spam come through. Spam Interceptor combines the option to use challenge-response on email it isn't sure about, which is very nice, but you still have to check all of the spam. So I've pretty much made up my mind to run a challenge-response system with whitelists and blacklists on my own mail server, and forget all about spam filtering. Spam is just going to continue to get worse and right now I see this as being the *only* solution. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com
How are you doing with the challenge-response??? I've been looking at adopting it and was wondering whether people are ready for the "culture change" that comes with the system.... are people happy to respond when neccesary???.... Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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How are you doing with the challenge-response??? I've been looking at adopting it and was wondering whether people are ready for the "culture change" that comes with the system.... are people happy to respond when neccesary???.... Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
shaunAustin wrote: How are you doing with the challenge-response??? I'm not using it yet so I can't comment from personal experience, however I am not overly concerned about repercussions. I will try and get as many of our customers on the whitelist early on so they will never get challenged. I think the world in general is so fed up with spam that they will be accomodating with a once-only challenge. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I'm averaging about 30 a day to my longest serving personal account. I won't attempt to count how many my hotmail account gets. Of course most of the 30 are from mistakes I made in the early days of being an Internet newbie in the mid 90's. I've had my personal email address for nearly 10 years, so 30 a day isn't too bad. I have an opt in mail system, if somebody isn't in my contacts then the mail will automatically be moved to a spam folder for later deletion. Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I get about 15-20 per day to my Yahoo account which I have had for several years now. My office account gets 1-5 per day. I am not using any spam blocking/filtering software other than the standard Yahoo bulk e-mail features. I am very picky about giving away my email address and do so only to websites I know well or am buying from.
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
At home I'm getting maybe 2 or 3 a day since I killed off my old email accounts. The Hotmail accounts of course attract it by the bucketload - but Hotmail's own spam filters seem to take care of most of them. Anything that gets onto my main email addresses usually gets caught by iHateSpam. :cool: At work we run Lotus Notes so there's no spam protection whatsoever. I get about 40 junk mails a day, and I'm really not looking forward to clearing out my Inbox when I get back from sick leave on 2nd March! X| X| X| Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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At home I'm getting maybe 2 or 3 a day since I killed off my old email accounts. The Hotmail accounts of course attract it by the bucketload - but Hotmail's own spam filters seem to take care of most of them. Anything that gets onto my main email addresses usually gets caught by iHateSpam. :cool: At work we run Lotus Notes so there's no spam protection whatsoever. I get about 40 junk mails a day, and I'm really not looking forward to clearing out my Inbox when I get back from sick leave on 2nd March! X| X| X| Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: and I'm really not looking forward to clearing out my Inbox when I get back from sick leave on 2nd March! Egads, tell them it's going to take you an extra three weeks on top of that to clean out your mail :-D
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares. Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?" As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
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Outlook 2003 does a good job. It has had some false positives* but I have it set on Aggresive and since I only have 70 a day scanning through is easy enough. :blush: I turned the spam filter off in the first few weeks of emailing Lena. Bugger me but was I tense about loosing one of her emails. I did not even trust the safe senders list :-D * Vikram and Brian, your emails got spam tagged! You naughty spammers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: * Vikram and Brian, your emails got spam tagged! You naughty spammers. :-O Is it the CP_homepages AT yahoo address? I suppose technically it is spam, because people did not ask to recieve them, so your filter is working just fine.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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Paul Watson wrote: * Vikram and Brian, your emails got spam tagged! You naughty spammers. :-O Is it the CP_homepages AT yahoo address? I suppose technically it is spam, because people did not ask to recieve them, so your filter is working just fine.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
More likely the "Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears" bit :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I get anywhere up to 30 per day. It's a bit aggravating sometimes, but far from bogs me down.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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More likely the "Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears" bit :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Do you not like Ms. Spears bits?
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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Do you not like Ms. Spears bits?
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
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Not particularly. I mean she is cute in a generic air brushed way but she only floats my boat to the half an inch line. There is a hundred million more attractive girls than her out there. And her "music" is just horrendous while her attitude irks me. Do you? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Not particularly. I mean she is cute in a generic air brushed way but she only floats my boat to the half an inch line. There is a hundred million more attractive girls than her out there. And her "music" is just horrendous while her attitude irks me. Do you? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Not particularly. I mean she is cute in a generic air brushed way but she only floats my boat to the half an inch line. There is a hundred million more attractive girls than her out there. And her "music" is just horrendous while her attitude irks me. Finally we agree on something. Except the cute bit, always thought she was a bit woof woof. Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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Not particularly. I mean she is cute in a generic air brushed way but she only floats my boat to the half an inch line. There is a hundred million more attractive girls than her out there. And her "music" is just horrendous while her attitude irks me. Do you? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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>or, here[^]. Hell yeah, I like Jolie a lot. For her attitude as well as her beauty. >or, here[^] Meg is cool. Does not boil my blood but she must be a good character. Whenever I think Meg I think of two things; Orgasms and F O X. >Say here[^] Never heard of her but she looks nice. >She's fun to look at when she's shaking her money-maker I saw the one Esquire photo shoot shot and had to admit it was hot. But that was after the hours of makeup, posing, lighting and air brushing. Plus it was not at all like her normal style (and the rest of the shots sucked). My fav is Catherine Zeta-Jones though. Ever since Darling Buds of May. Hubba, hubba. ;) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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>or, here[^]. Hell yeah, I like Jolie a lot. For her attitude as well as her beauty. >or, here[^] Meg is cool. Does not boil my blood but she must be a good character. Whenever I think Meg I think of two things; Orgasms and F O X. >Say here[^] Never heard of her but she looks nice. >She's fun to look at when she's shaking her money-maker I saw the one Esquire photo shoot shot and had to admit it was hot. But that was after the hours of makeup, posing, lighting and air brushing. Plus it was not at all like her normal style (and the rest of the shots sucked). My fav is Catherine Zeta-Jones though. Ever since Darling Buds of May. Hubba, hubba. ;) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Catherine Zeta-Jones Cheesy Christams! How could I forget her?
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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Okay... so... continuing my obsession with all things spam related... What levels of spam are we all getting on a daily basis. I'm sure we've all seen the recent studies which say that your average corporate bod spends an average of 4 hours a week separating spam from the good stuff costing £$s in lost productivity... Personally, I get about 250 - 300 spam mails every day to two long standing but unfortunately still needed mail addresses. I have a decent spam filter but that catches all but about 10 of those... the only problem is that I have such a lack of faith in the anti-spam system that I still have to scan the killed folder to check for false positives... (and there are one or two occasionally which dents my faith further..) [for what it's worth I think most of the spam comes from a time when it was "cool" to enter your friends e-mail addresses into websites with pointless java games and e-greetings and jokes etc... cheers guys!!] What's everyone elses experience... personally and commercially.. (but let's not get down to a "my spam schlong is longer that yours" type debate!) ;) Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I have gotten to the point where I just use trusted sender lists. If I give out my email I get either their email, or if its a forum mailer I just trust the domain. Matt Newman
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