On 25/4/04 12:11 am, "SVEN AERTS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> you have 8900 spam messages a year ?! Jeezes ... that's a lot... I have no
> idea how many I receive... but... how come you get that many ?
> In Europe we have to prepare for that?


In Europe, I'm currently getting about 150 per day, on average.

It doesn't matter where you live, it all depends on how you have used your
email addresses. I have one address that has been in existence for about 12
years, which is now not used publicly. That one address gets about one third
of all the spam (and about 1% real messages!). Other addresses start simply
with [EMAIL PROTECTED] So are susceptible to a rumplestiltskin attack. Quite a few
of the addresses are used in public groups so can be harvested by the
spammers.

The longer you keep a public presence, the more likely you are to get a
bucket load of spam!

Spamseive did a respectable job for a while, but now I find that Entourage's
JMF, combined with a few judicious rules catches all but one or two a day,
and no false positives.


-- 
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
  <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>




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