Re: PLUG: PMAS

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
In article <f51cb9$478$1@xxxxxxxxx>,
helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:

In article <1378bo75v2pl6a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Daniel
<mark.daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:


And I thought the SPAM load was moderating (silly me).

Looking for a specific e-mail I thought I should have received, I just opened my PreciseMail Anti-SPAM quarrantined messages page to search for it (without success). I don't do this often and haven't for a while (obviously not since the last upgrade). Towards the top of the 2,967,263 byte report page is a (new to me) item "(Messages: 4605)". That's four and one half thousand quarrantined SPAM in the past 14 days! This is something like 328 per day!!

That seems about average. I've resorted to using ZEN.SPAMHAUS.ORG as an RBL. That gets rid of the lion's share.


So, how bad does it have to get before I can expect people to start
looking at my suggestion for a social solution rather than technical
solutions that may hide the problem but certainly don't reduce it or
the load it puts on the system?

bill


Several years ago, I read that fewer than 200 men were responsible for 90% of the spam. If this is true, perhaps the solution is to ask the Mafia to deal with the problem, pro bono publico! Even if we had to take up a collection to pay them, it would be worth it.

Actually, Comcast seems to be using a very good spam filter; I don't get very much spam. Most of the advertising I get is from outfits I've done business with; e.g. Corel, Amazon, Cyberguys, DeLorme, etc.

A few years ago, I used to get spam in languages I could not read; Chinese, Arabic . . . . I don't see very much any more.

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