The amount of spam and self-replicating virii out there is really getting on my nerves. Each day I receive about 100 spams (directly to me), 20-30 virii (to an alias I'm on - they total over a few MB per day), and then the rest of the spams to lists. Unfortunately there are so many people out there who could care less about filling people's mailboxes with this crud that I see no end. So far the "Spamassasin" program works to catch about 85% or more of the spam I get with only a few false-positives. At least it files it to a seperate mailbox for me so I can deal with it when I am ready. Do we all really need to have 5 e-mail boxes? One for friends, one for mailing lists, one for spam/signup lists, etc? What will happen when the technology moves more toward e-mail pagers (as commonplace, I know they exist).. will we get paged every 15min with a new spam?
Posted by Aaron at June 24, 2002 11:44 AMthere is ways to make life more easy when talking about spam...you need have 2 email boxes and one you use on stupid forms that are everywhere in internet and another is stricly private and be given only to most trusted persons..some forms accept fake email address too ;) and of course you need up the date anti virus software running behind and you can delete spam messages once a week just without reading them ;) no problemo with spam here...
Posted by: Stellar on October 19, 2002 10:25 AM