I know what you mean. I've been fielding aproximately 70-100 pieces of spam a day and it seems to be going up. I'm grateful my ISP has a fantastic spam filter built in. The filter checks for wording, flase reverse DNS lookups and a whole bunch of other things. Basicly I can wipe out almost 98% of the spam (even from places I've never heard from before) and I can check the messages in "Web Mail" via Netscape or MIE. I then have the option to let through those messages I want with a couple of mouse clicks and block almost all the others. With two more mouse clicks I then delete all of the captured spam.
You might check to see if your ISP offers something similar. Mine charges $2.00 extra for the service, but it's well worth it. >I think I bragged too much about not getting much spam. I must have >offended the spam gods because now the pace has picked up quite a bit. It >seems like the majority are offering penile enlargement or viagra. Is it >possible for one's wife to order spam? :-) > >But getting to my real questions- I'm getting a fair amount of spam posts >in which the title is almost unreadable junk like the following: > >ignftion scale dycyanu q usk ailiv > >Can anyone tell me what causes that sort of thing? > >And the second question involves something that my firewall software >seems to protect me from, but I don't know what it means and why I need >the protection. > >Now and then I get a notice that I have been the subject of a "ping >flooding" attack. As directed by my preferences, the intruder is put in a >stop list so he can't do it again (I guess). Could someone explain what >ping flooding is, and why I should care? > >Thanks > >Bill McIntyre >San Clemente, CA > >Saying that being pro-war is "supporting our troops" is like saying that >arson is supporting our firefighters. > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
