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#1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 06:51 PM

I've even constructed a message rule to automatically get rid of the
unwanted messages about the virus. Unfortunately it caused even more grief
when I deleted a valid message my mistake but when you are discarding so
many messages it is so easy to discard too many.
I've also tried adding the addresses to a blocked senders list but that then
sends me an email to tell me it has blocked the sender. Can we ever hope to
win?

Maybe we should all get out heads together and come up with a better
solution to the problem.

regards

Malcolm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com>
To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Is it only me getting all these viruses ?

> "malcolm.iiug" <malcolm.iiug@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:bkmhvi$pom$1@terabinaries.xmission.com...
> >
> > There was a lot of publicity in UK a few weeks ago about a Virus of this
> > type. They predicted Internet meltdown etc . But nothing seemed to
> happen.
> > And I suspect that there is a large element of crying wolf with these
> > stories. Nowadays, nobody is really interested. They just accept that
> the
> > system will eventually get rid of these emails and will settle down
again.
> > I'm just glad I've got a high speed link and I pay a monthly fee
> regardless
> > of volume. Just imaging if you had to pay to receive all these unwanted
> > messages.
>
> The message itself may not have been debilitating, but I had 4035 of them
> (yes, four thousand and thirty-five!) over the weekend. Dealing with mail
> in that volume, even you intend to delete 99.5% of it. makes it very
> difficult to deal with the remaining 0.5%.
>
>

sending to informix-list

#2 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 06:52 PM

malcolm.iiug wrote:
> I've even constructed a message rule to automatically get rid of the
> unwanted messages about the virus. Unfortunately it caused even more
> grief when I deleted a valid message my mistake but when you are
> discarding so many messages it is so easy to discard too many.
> I've also tried adding the addresses to a blocked senders list but
> that then sends me an email to tell me it has blocked the sender.
> Can we ever hope to win?
>
> Maybe we should all get out heads together and come up with a better
> solution to the problem.

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using for a long time now. I got into it during their beta testing phase,
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thing I've ever signed up to pay on the internet. I can't imagine being
without it now.

http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnetsig/

I strongly urge that everyone using Outlook 2000/2002/XP should sign up. My
self-interest: to see more subscribers so they make a profit and therefore
keep this invaluable service running. Seems they are offering bulk discounts
too - presumably for Corporate licences etc.

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