i get probbably 5 or 6 spam per week and about 4 viruses. stats for yesterday 67 pic list emails 0 NASA 7 ERPS 2 Corr Board Chatlist 10 ARocket (unusually quiet) 0 Uni 0 wamex 0 abbl 4 personal 1 virus 0 spam 91 emails thats a pretty low level ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Crowcroft" To: Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: [OT]: spam and what to do > I got 230 spam this morning. A record for me. Mailwasher latest version > gets rid of most of them but some completely new emails seem to get caught > up in the deletion and I only see them as they are being deleted. Reading > 230 message headers is a bit of a pain. > > It seems to me that most spam now is just idiotic. I think the only people > making money are the people selling the CDs of 200 million email addresses > for $xx.xx, whatever. > > Anyway what is the spam load of people on this list? I would be very > interested in hearing of the latest programs to deal with it. It took 8 > minutes to get my 5 valid emails this morning. and I refuse to change my > email address. (Or is that a silly attitude in 2003?) > > Advice? > > regards, > > Peter Crowcroft > DIY Electronics (HK) Ltd > PO Box 88458, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong > Factory: voice 852-2304 2250 Fax: 852-2729 1400 > M/F, 97 Fuk Wa Street, Sham Shui Po > Home: voice 852-2720 0255 Mobile: 6273 2049 > Web: http://www.kitsrus.com Email: peter@kitsrus.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu