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Increase of spam

Author
22 Nov 2007 9:54 PM
Captain Apollo
Hello All,

For quite a while I have managed to keep a lid on spam where that my peak of
spam would be approximately 2 or 3 per day.  There would be the rarity that
I would receive 5 of them.

Part of this is that I ensure to all my friends never to send me those
"joke" e-mails where they automatically forward them to everyone that is in
their address book into their "To:" box.  This position has been for a
number of years.  You might can say that I am rather "authoritive" about
this procedure.

Putting all this aside, Microsoft Outlook 2007 has done a great deal in
quickly diverting those spam into their "Junk Mail" folder.  A folder I
really like in order to stop the potential of what's in those e-mails.  Also
my updates have been as recent as 14th November and again the 19th bearing
that I had to reinstall the operating system from another issue (which I
founf out later that I need not do this).

The question to all would be that are you expereincing an major influx of
spam mail that is also bypassing the junk mail folder of Outlook?  I am now
receiving approximately 10 to 12 e-mails a day which is rather concerning
despite my facsistic style in e-mail address security.  This would be
approximately 3-weeks this wave has begun.

Kindest Regards

Author
23 Nov 2007 9:42 AM
John Blessing
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"Captain Apollo" <enquir***@asio.gov.au> wrote in message
news:E2FBB9F9-13EB-4232-828D-76C638E7824F@microsoft.com...
> Hello All,
>
> For quite a while I have managed to keep a lid on spam where that my peak
> of spam would be approximately 2 or 3 per day.  There would be the rarity
> that I would receive 5 of them.
>
> Part of this is that I ensure to all my friends never to send me those
> "joke" e-mails where they automatically forward them to everyone that is
> in their address book into their "To:" box.  This position has been for a
> number of years.  You might can say that I am rather "authoritive" about
> this procedure.
>
> Putting all this aside, Microsoft Outlook 2007 has done a great deal in
> quickly diverting those spam into their "Junk Mail" folder.  A folder I
> really like in order to stop the potential of what's in those e-mails.
> Also my updates have been as recent as 14th November and again the 19th
> bearing that I had to reinstall the operating system from another issue
> (which I founf out later that I need not do this).
>
> The question to all would be that are you expereincing an major influx of
> spam mail that is also bypassing the junk mail folder of Outlook?  I am
> now receiving approximately 10 to 12 e-mails a day which is rather
> concerning despite my facsistic style in e-mail address security.  This
> would be approximately 3-weeks this wave has begun.
>
> Kindest Regards


Spam does come in waves, generally speaking  (to continue the analogy), the
tide is ever-increasing.   I would prefer to filter on the server, rather
than download and then filter.

Options.

Send all email to a server based spam filtering service
Send all email to a google mail account - which does include excellent spam
filtering
One of my domain hosting company has implemented "greylisting"- which has
massively reduced the amount of spam received but does have some
disadvantages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting)

--
John Blessing

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