From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V8 #104 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, June 27 2003 Volume 08 : Number 104 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Your concern is very touching. ["Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Your concern is very touching. Yes I guess you are right - I still get emails from people who think Bill Gates is testing some new email tracing program and will give them $100 - people I think should know better. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Milliner" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: Your concern is very touching. > > Even if just one idiot out of a 10 million emails sent buys their > product, then it is cheaper advertising than most snail mail. Until all > the gullable people learn about these things, it will still be worth it > to them and if P.T. Barnum was right then it will never stop! > -Russ > > Keith Stansell wrote: > > >My email service provider has done a pretty good job of filtering email for > >me (http://www.netidentity.com). > > > >I used to never get any spam at all, but it has been getting though more and > >more often now - I guess there is only so much a filter can do. Things > >like: "dk Affvrdablk krectmon fvrmuld that works!" still work their way > >through. > > > >Why do they spam us? Is it really worth their while - who actually buys > >what they are selling? Seems to me it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Are > >there really idiots that buy what they are selling? Wont' they just all go > >out of business or give up after a while? > > > >End gripe mode. > > > >-Keith > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Russell Milliner" > >To: > >Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:40 PM > >Subject: Re: Alloy: Your concern is very touching. > > > > > > > > > >>I use Mozilla as my mail client which has "trainable" junk mail > >>filtering. It is quite effective, and there are other mail clients that > >>can do this. > >>-Russ > >> > >>Jon Drukman wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>At 01:12 AM 6/25/2003, p.latham2 wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Is there anyway of blocking unwanted mails ?? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>tons. i found the only truly effective thing *for me* was to make it > >>>so nobody can email me without replying to a confirmation email. try > >>>it - send me an email at jsd@cluttered.com and see what happens. it's > >>>kind of a pain but it has cut my spam to zero. > >>> > >>>there are plenty of other methods... start here and prepare to be > >>>bewildered. > >>> > >>>http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/ > >>> > >>>-jsd- ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V8 #104 ***************************