is it just me? or are you guys seeing lots of spam mail too. just curious. -jeff
From: "jeff" <jmr71769@earthlink.net>
is it just me? or are you guys seeing lots of spam mail too.
Do you mean spam through the wlug mailing list, or in general? I have not seen much true spam on the list, but a couple of people have been posting in HTML. If your spam filter is set up to trash that, you may be throwing away some non-spam (but so far nothing that you really need to know---just questions about how to get a Windows machine working on the net and such). Spam in general is out of control and only getting worse, but I thought everybody knew that, so why are you asking? -- Keith
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:27:48PM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
From: "jeff" <jmr71769@earthlink.net>
is it just me? or are you guys seeing lots of spam mail too.
Do you mean spam through the wlug mailing list, or in general? I have not seen much true spam on the list,
That's because of the recent changeover to blocking postings from unsubscribed addresses. I probably delete about 5 spams a week or so from the approval queue.
but a couple of people have been posting in HTML. If your spam filter is set up to trash that, you may be
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