Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:28:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Changing one's email address for the purpose of being allowed to mingle > with the members of a "respectable" ISP is no biggie. It is only a very > minor hassle to change one's email address. It is also "no biggie" to simply delete

Re: spam

2002-11-24 Thread G J Feig
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I was looking for someone's personal numbers--something from > somebody's real experience. Megabytes? > Is anybody on the list actually getting that much spam? Sam, I have no axact figures. My ISP just blocks, and dumps the box

Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-24 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:27:54 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote: > Hiya Gang! > I couldn't let this one pass anylonger, hehe...sorry, but blocking entire > domains or ISPs just because a user receives 1 or 2 "spam" emails > from some address purported to be owned by that domain/ISP is > akin to deny

Re: Turn it over [was Re: OT: Digital camera / SmartMedia / Flashpath

2002-11-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
Or you could follow "The McCorkle method" Step 1 --- destroy instruction sheet On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:02:24 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Klaus, > Please don't feel stupid! I was so proud I bought 128Mb SmartCard > add-in for my digital camera, but I knew from nothing so I very VERY > carefu

Turn it over [was Re: OT: Digital camera / SmartMedia / Flashpath

2002-11-24 Thread L.D. Best
Klaus, Please don't feel stupid! I was so proud I bought 128Mb SmartCard add-in for my digital camera, but I knew from nothing so I very VERY carefully read the instruction book that came with the camera, and then I read it again, and checked the diagrams. I then installed the card per instructi

Re: spam

2002-11-24 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Sam, On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:27:12 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> WORLDWIDE E-MAIL MESSAGES SENT ANNUALLY >> 19961999 2002 2006 >> Source: Email Usage Forecast, 2002-2006: Know Whats Coming Your Way, >> IDC, Framingham, Mass. > No, I was looking for someone's

Re: spam

2002-11-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:27:12 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:05:23 -0500, Terri FitzSimons wrote: >>> ...But, holy smokes, are you guys really getting megabytes of spam >> daily? I'd like to hear a firm figure from someone who knows >> for sure--not just a wild guess.< >> How ab

Re: spam

2002-11-24 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:05:23 -0500, Terri FitzSimons wrote: >> ...But, holy smokes, are you guys really getting megabytes of spam > daily? I'd like to hear a firm figure from someone who knows > for sure--not just a wild guess.< > How about these numbers? > WORLDWIDE E-MAIL MESSAGES SENT ANNUALL

Re: OT: Digital camera / SmartMedia / Flashpath

2002-11-24 Thread Klaus Hameyer
>>Help! Is there anyone out there who has had experience with >>using a FlashPath floppy adapter for reading SmartMedia >>cards from a digital camera into the computer? >Hello LD: >Thank you for responding to my call for help. I'll keep this off the >Arachne list until I have it resolved. Oh, h

OT - Spam

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Sam! 22 Nov 2002, "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SE> What happens to an email arriving from a blocked domain? SE> Is it bounced back with an explanation? SE> Would the legitimate user know that his email had been blocked? SE> And why? Usually sane blocking is done by comparing the