re:
"It takes months AND releasing your address willy-nilly to start getting
spam again. "
Not necessarily. If anybody you've emailed has your address stored in
their contacts list (many
do this automatically), and that computer get compromised, you're on a
spammer's list. Same
with your ISP ... if their list of clients gets compromised, you're on
list(s).
This problem has gotten seriously worse in the last few months (Cisco
just spent almost
$700M on a company that develops "messaging security" products ... it's
big business now).
My feeling is that it's up to the ISP to invest in gear that limits
spam; it's in their best interest
to do so anyway.
bs
John Sims wrote:
> That is one of my points. IF you get a new email address and restrict it to
> those you trust, you should not have to keep a block list. It takes months
> AND releasing your address willy-nilly to start getting spam again.
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>
> www.healey6.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net] On
> Behalf Of David Porter
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:54 PM
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: junk
>
> My question is, at what point does the number of blocked sender addresses
> start to affect the performance of the program? I have about a million now
> and more everyday. <G>
>
> Dave
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> frogeye@swcp.com
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