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shoe

Jul 22, 2006, 5:53 AM

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I had not checked my email account on MXC for some time and I just looked and had 793 unread messages. All were spam. I hope the new updates do something about the spam. I remember Pete had this problem once and I hope that everybody does not have the same problem. I do not use my MXC email account so do not go there very often. What a mess.

cya,
shoe

Nothing is intrinsically good or evil, but its manner of usage may make it so.
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Jul 22, 2006, 9:59 AM

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Shoe: You beat me. I never use, my MexConnect email service either. The last time I deleted the Spam, before today was April 25th. I ONLY had 537 spam emails in my inbox. What's that 88 days? That's only 6 spam per day.

And whose fault is that? It aint mine; nor do I blame MexConnect. It is the fault of the Spammers who spend many hours each day trying to find back doors into the mail servers.

I get some 300 emails a day addressed to my primary -----@cnw.com email account, 95% of which are SPAM. actually That is no exaggeration. The actual # is over 300 emails per day.

Why do I get so many spam emails? There are any number of reasons to include the fact that this address is published each week in a regional newspaper.

Thank God for Spam filters. My ISP's Spam filter catches about 50% of the spam, my Norton Spam filter, another 40+% leaving perhaps 20 to 30 spam emails that get through each day

(This post was edited by johanson on Jul 22, 2006, 10:03 AM)