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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 11/14/06 09:27
"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4rsia3Fsnk1rU1@mid.individual.net...
> Andrew wrote:
> || Has anoyone else noticed a huge increase in spam in the last 6
> || months?.
> || I'm having to delete tons of stuff with mailwasher compared to 6
> || months ago. Why doesn't someone do something about these bloody
> || idiots. Its the same people/emails over and over again. It's
> || getting bloody ridiculous
> ||
> || /rant over
>
> Absolutely - 100-150 pieces a day, at the moment. I've never tried
> mailwasher, but use Outlook 2003. It has a "junk mail" folder which really
> works incredibly well. I always have a quick glance down the contents of
> the junk mail folder before empyting it, and I find that virtually no
> "proper" mail gets dumped in there by mistake, and only perhaps one or two
> pieces of spam find their way into the normal Inbox. This sort of
> detection rate makes the spam even more bloody pointless...
>
> paul
Most of the spam I get nowadays seems to be advice on the US stock market
and for something called Hoodia (?).
The spam is pretty much the same everyday but the sender varies so the
Outlook "block sender" does work that well
Tricky
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