OT: Merry Christmas Reflector mail??

Those were crossposted all over the place. I saw them on several newsgroups but only got hit here. I got the reflector and a set of spams for confirming online banking and paypal accounts. I have neither.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

mabar wrote:

Come on Bill. I recently changed my ISP because I was getting 30 to 40 spams a day! It has NOTHING to do with being a wimp.

I think I was getting a lot of spam because I was using my "real" email address for posts, registrations, etc. I now use a "disposable" free email address for newsgroup posts, registrations, etc.

It's still a "real" address, but if I start getting a lot of spams again, I can just change it.

Tom

That's it?

Yeah. So?

With the proper tools, you can avoid seeing the problem. Then you no longer need to worry about it. Just don't add to the problem in vain attempts to solve it.

-D

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Hey Bill, my issue is with virus payloads, not just spam. Until Microworst gets their product fixed and until we get rid of foolish broadband users all over the world, we will continue to get inunudated with junk. But since you seem to be unabable to wrap your brain cells around the difference between virus loads and spam, why should I try to educate you?

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III wrote:

They're a waste of bandwidth, but they're not entirely the end of the world. (well, not for some of us)

My mail system drops any virus-carrying messages without any interaction or notification on my part. Therefore, if they didn't exist in the first place I wouldn't see any difference. This works for me because I have a broadband connection and I don't pay per unit of data transferred.

-D