I have friends not on this list who have complained about the huge
increase in spam this month. I think it is really the internet
environment that has changed. Spammers have New Year's resolutions
too, I suppose.
I find that spam filtering of my own beyond that of the ISP helps a
great deal. I use SpamSeive, which is not expensive. Mac only I think.
Apple Mail has a feature that seems to help too. I don't know whether
other mail apps have something similar. Once the rude messages are
selected you can choose Bounce from the Message menu and a bounce
signal is sent to the spam server as if it was sent to a bad address.
The hope is that automatic list maintenance by the spammer will delete
your address from the database. It is easy to do and seems to have
some effect on the volume received. You do get an occasional
undeliverable message notice from the bounced messages.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / January 14, 2008 CE, at 4:18 PM, Marc Lawrence wrote:
> Nabble has been archiving the List for quite some time (early
> 2006?), so
> it would seem an unlikely cause of an increase in spam. Is it possible
> that you are mistaking the dating from your awareness of Nabble (ie.
> recently) with its actual implementation of archiving of this list
> (2006) and ascribing "coincidence" where none exists? Note that this
> issue also came up*on this list in June 2006, September 2006, November
> 2006 & March 2007 (and possibly other dates - you can search Nabble's
> archives for the incidents ;-) ).
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