Re: More on spam
--- klaus imgrund <claus.imgrund@terra.com.br> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2003 13:50, Sidney Brooks
> wrote:
> >
> > --- klaus imgrund <claus.imgrund@terra.com.br>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > My Swen volume had dropped to a managable one
> per
> > > day since my last
> > > > post here around six weeks ago. I posted last
> > > night (helping
> > > > someone fight Swen), and this morning, there
> were
> > > 20+ Swens, over 3
> > > > Megabytes. I was *that* close to losing
> e-mail.
> > > Never again.
> > > >
> > > I get about 2 'real' Swens (with virus formerly
> > > attached) and 4 warnings about
> > > Swen from some dummies a day.
> > > You might be barking up the wrong tree here.
> > >
> > > Klaus
> > >
> > Unlike many of you, I am not a computer
> professional
> > or computer expert. In order to get Debian to
> work, I
> > needed help from this site. The price has been the
> > endless spam, almost all which has either MS or
> > Microsoft in the return addresses.
> >
> I am nowhere even near of being any kind of expert
> on anything.
> I use kmail with my regular ISP mail account for
> this list - just to make the
> point of how much of a no-expert I really am.
> If you got an account with a ISP that doesn't filter
> for viruses get rid of
> your ISP.
> Otherwise its easy to filter those out by the
> warnings from the ISP.
> All you are stuck with by then is the usual spam
> which is a lot but you need
> something to train spamassassin with ;-)
> I can see people with dialup accounts or guys
> running mail servers (if
> somebody runs a mail server and doesn't know how to
> get rid of that stuff -
> well,don't run one then) having a problem with this
> but other than that it's
> just an annoyance.
> Anyway,some kind of forum kind of deal instead of a
> mailing list would
> probably help but this will not happen.
>
It is easy for you to say. I live in a rural area
where we are lucky to have one ISP.
>
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