Posted by Dr Zoidberg on 11/14/06 13:30

Andrew wrote:
> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1163496386.7734.0@iris.uk.clara.net...
>>
>> "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
>
>
>
> 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.

Because most of the spam is being sent from mal-ware infested desktop PCs
throughout the globe

> 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.

That might work if email could only be sent from a certain number of places
but you can just have an smtp engine on your pc that lets you send mail
directly from there
--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

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