Posted by Andrew on 11/14/06 12:13

"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> 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
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> 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



Same here.
Funny thing is it is clear just a small group of people creating/sending
these emails as they are always advertising the same. Why someone can't do
something about these people is beyond me.
I remember reading an article from a guy who said the only way to stop
spammers is to charge everyone for send an email in the same way you charge
to send a letter, example charge 1p per email.
I laughed when i read it, and of course it will never happen, but to be
honest, all this spam pisses me off so much i'd gladly pay 1p for every
email i sent out if it would teach the spammers a lesson.

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