OT Spam

I hate to tell you this but if she is already getting spam then her address is most likely on one or more mailing lists and she will only get more.

You can safely do what I have done and use the address snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net then spell out the real address in the signature. The owner of privacy.net has said this address will always be available for use in this way. Where you set this depends on the software you use but it will be in the account settings somewhere.

1. Get Mailwasher
2. Spamize your newsgroup posts reply to address. Important to and sufficent after the @ as well as alot of email adresses accept anything before the @ and will still get through.
3. Some Spam will penetrate 2. but more so those that are sent out to I.P. addresses rather then email addresses if you see what I mean. This makes getting 1 more important.
4. I came back after 2 days away at Gaydon and had over 600 emails. Mailwasher quickly sorted the wheat from the chaff so that in the end the 3 that were actually for me were all that was left...also mailwasher removes threats to Outlook express as the hostile emails are deleted at the server rather than after infecting OE on your machine.

HTH

Lee D

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Once the spam is coming it will only get worse unless the authorities get to grips with it, which they seem reluctant to do.

I see you use BT Internet/Yahoo so why aren't you using their excellent "Spamguard" system. It outsorts 98% of my spam, I beat my record with 427 one day last week, and it's free too, and it deletes from the Server so you don't even download it. You just check the "Bulk" mail (spam) for names you know and want mail from, tell Spamguard you want mail from them in future and then delete the rest. It learns as it goes along so after a couple of months you find it knows everyone you want let through. Good tool.

Cor, I just checked my statistics for the first time in a while, 7300 units done. I'm just outside the top .5%.

On or around 5 May 2004 07:39:30 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:

Blimey. 1079 here... Though the new machine chomps through 'em about 6 times as fast as the old one. 22580-odd hours.

our group isn't doing badly...

for some reason, we're listed in "government agencies", at no.36. nowhere near the US Navy, mind...

Some member have been a bit lacking haven't they. Most notably the founder member, no results since June 2000!!

On or around 5 May 2004 12:20:48 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:

ah well, that's par for the course in the shed. wouldn't do to expend too many tuits.

Is that still going? I thought they'd stopped it.

Alex

No, still going.

According to main stats they have got just under 4 million users who have completed 1362946153 units. The total CPU time is 1909887.762 years.

Quite impressive.

It would be even more impressive if any of us actually identify something... P'raps we really are alone...

Martyn

There are rumours that certain members of this newsgroup come from outer space. In large purple spaceships with tardis-like qualities

:D

Alex

On or around Thu, 06 May 2004 16:25:41 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

however, contemplate the size of space. Space is big, really mind-bogglingly big (to quote[1] DNA, RIP); in our case, for example, we've been using radio waves for about 103 years - and the chances are that marconi's dit-dit-dit signals in 1901 are the most likely to actually propagate - very powerful, non-dirctional, etc.

that signal has gone about 103 light-years, but in terms of anyone sending a reply, they'd have to be within about 50 light-years; which ain't far by galactic standards.

however, all planets are clearly not teeming with life on a par with ours, or we'd likely have noticed. It could be that the moon has something to do with the development of our planet. Most comparable-sized planets don't have large satellites, I suspect.

[1] or misquote, as is just as likely.

Don't confuse 'outer space' with being 'spaced out'... :-)

That's odd - someone else said exactly the same thing last Sunday at Gaydon. Time And Relative Dimension In Space... Can't believe I cna remember that.

Yes, yes, yes...

I've told you once...

Stop talking sense Shackles...

(and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, because there... etc)... :-)

...which was being played continuosly in its entirety - including the last line, in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC last week. It was fun watching folks faces at the last bit.

Steve

..so after reading this I went and downloaded and installed it.

I've now discovered that I have a 2 stage fan on my PC, which had just switched to high speed for the first time ever!! Guess it does something then, although I don't know if I can live with the noise!!!!

G

On or around Fri, 7 May 2004 22:30:32 +0200, "Gromit" enlightened us thusly:

hehe

That's the spirit!

Now go search for 'home cluster' :-)