Re: I'm a spammer!

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From: Peter G. Hancock
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:02

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While it would be a plus to have the option to have spam filtering
done at demon's end, I doubt I'd use it, at least at the moment.

reasons..

* although its quite simple (after some initial terror) 
  to set up pretty good filtering, I don't think its
  an exact science.  I send my spam to various wheelie-bins,
  and every few days check there isn't any genuine stuff
  in among the crap (and tune the filters).  There usually is!
  Some of it has been pretty important.  I also take the 
  opportunity to hunt down and complain about the more offensive
  stuff, which may be useless, but gives me a nice righteous feeling. 

* I don't get zigabytes of mail.  Something like 50 mails a day, 
  2/3rds of it spam.  And only 2 or 3 of the cockroaches 
  wriggle through to my real inbox.  And I've surftime-double-plus-good
  or whatever they call it, so cost is not an issue.
  
I can appreciate there are people for whom the situation is
more desperate. 

-- 
Peter Hancock

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From: peter@premise.demon.co.uk (Peter G. Hancock)
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