In article <fo2o56$eco$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In any case, if a mail message shows up whose sender id and/or
>> subject line don't look familiar, I delete it unread.
>
>That's sad. You're letting the spammers win.
How so? I'm not responding to their bait.
If I mailed them "LET ME ALONE" they'd say, "Wow, we have a live
one!"
And trying to report them is like trying to bail out the ocean
with a spoon: they are, as you observe, too damn many of them.
>My whitelist now contains over 14,000 names and email addresses, which
>is far more than those that "look familiar." Plus, all my web pages,
>all my Usenet posts, and all my posts to email lists, have a signature
>with a URL at which my current disposable email address, sendable to
>by anyone, can be found. (Well, okay, by anyone not in the Axis of
>Spam: Argentina, China, Korea, Nigeria, and Taiwan.)
I don't have a whitelisting ability on trn. I don't care. What
I do works for me. What you do, I assume, works for you.
Perhaps you have many many more legitimate people who send you
email, than I do. For me, what works is to type "mail," to look
at the list of sender ids and subject lines, and MAYBE to look at
one or two, but mostly to type "d *" and "q".
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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