Hello!
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From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Re: RE: RE: Re: EOS slow times at list
> Hugo G�vert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote/replied to:
>
> >Do not confuse emails with viruses (which might send copies of itself)
with
> >spam. Emails that have viruses have some code inside them that can be
> >executed in some form (trying to keep things simple). Spam is
> >addverticements and other unwanted emails. And while there are some email
> >viruses alive out there, I'm betting it's spam that fills your inbox.
>
> You are wrong. I am talking about mail with exe files.
Yep, that is virus email... I just didn't think those could be filling your
inbox. Maybe, if they are really large. I get at worst days 20-30 spam
emails, which are quite well filtered by spam assassin+procmail on the
server - though not completely, and as I read my emails with IMAP I can not
use my own filtering on top of SA (all good ones only work for POP). And per
the couple of thousand spam emails that I've received recently, I've perhaps
had only one virus email (actually, I've gotten only one during the last 10
years or so that I can remember, and I think that was a couple of years
ago.)... so, I could not believe that the virus emails could be filling your
inbox. But if you are not getting spam, then consider youself lucky! Sorry
to waste your time - but I think there are others here fighting with spam
problem, so hopefully they got something out of this - at least the two
links to spam filters.
Best regards,
Hugo.
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