lets see, 2 e-mail boxen in cox.net (both of which don't see much traffic save for = this=20 list and 2 other e-mail lists) and 2 boxen at hotmail (thats wher the 300= =20 e-mails a day are coming from). I use hotmail as my public interface (it keeps the spam out of my cox.net= =20 accounts). However, given that recently, I have seen the "undelivered=20 messages" scam and the "MS Update" scam hit everywhere (hotmail and cox.n= et)=20 for the last 5 days, I spend too much time here trying to make sure that = I=20 can get my mail. I have over 200 megs of infected e-mails itting in their own box atm (tha= t box=20 expires messages every 24 hours) and it never seems to end. I got 37 e-ma= ils=20 of this type within the last 40 minutes alone! I figure within 2 weeks, my current filter sets will be irrelivant (and I= will=20 have to create new ones) as for hotmail, I use a linux program (called hotwayd) to access hotmail = via=20 kmail (nice utility). it hasn't been fast enough though. I got bitch lett= ers=20 from the MSN/Hotmail stff 3 times this week for over full mail storage. I have done one thing though, I sent anyone I do business with a nice lit= tle=20 form letter advising them not to sell my e-mails to third parties unless = they=20 acquired my express permission (jn writing). this has helped a bit, but=20 still.. lastly, I am using spamcop to help in minimizing the worm problem (in the= =20 notes section, I place this: "please notify the ISP that the user at the = ip=20 address listed for this notice is infected with . Plea= se=20 correct the problem".). it works, even though spamcop wasn't designed to = do=20 this. I did right the admins at spamcop about this, so far, I haven't hea= rd=20 back from anyone there. I'll let you guys know how it goes. Proudhawk/Mage On Monday 22 September 2003 08:55 am, Don Calfa wrote: > How do you get 300 e-mails a day that is spam? I seriously never get > spam except for 4 a day with my bigfoot address and any adversitements > are from businesses that I purchae goods from. My other e-mail > addresses get zip, none, nada. I make sure that my e-mail address is > never listed anywhere that will be posted somewhere and if I put it on = a > website, it's javascript encrypted so it can't be crawled. > > technomage-hawke@cox.net wrote: > >spamcop isn't exactly a black hole. > > > >However, I see upwards of 300 e-mails a day now and most of it is > > unsolicited, unwated and sometimes very offensive UCE! > > > >the only things I filter right now go to their own folders (like publi= sher > >clearing house, eversave and all the surveys I take with NFO and this > > list). everything else not of a personal nature I consider to be unwa= nted > > spam and its dealt with accordingly. > > > >sure, blackholes do need a bit more intelligence, but I would rather n= ot > > have to sit here for 3 HOURS daily trying to figure out whats what wi= th a > > speech synthasizer (or a very strong magnifier and my nearly non-exis= tant > > eyesight!). > > > >Proudhawk/Mage > > > >On Monday 22 September 2003 07:49 am, Victor Odhner wrote: > >>I've been bitten so badly by the whole blackhole folly -- > >>having legitimate incoming mail bounced in the middle of > >>a job search -- that I'm no longer "fighting" spam at all. > >>I'm just using the Mozilla junk filter to isolate it. > >>Blackholes are a *bad* idea whose time has come and gone. > >> > >>technomage wrote: > >>>I recently signed up with spamcop. seems to be working ok as brand n= ew > >>>(fresh!) spam was discovered today. hopefully, this will start worki= ng > >>>soon. > >>> > >> > . . . > >>> > >>>perhaos more of us should sign up. it'll definitely prove helpful. > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------- > >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > >--------------------------------------------------- > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss