Last Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:33, Larry Troxler was like: > I always use my real email address on all the email lists I'm subsrcribed > to, and also on usenet, and also on all web based message boards. Me too. > And yet, I at most I get about 20 unsolicited commercial emails per day, > more typically only about 5 per day. ditto. > Again, since I seem to be the only one not worried about this problem, I > wonder if I'm somehow missing valid emails. But I don't think so, because I > haven't had any such complaints. No, you're not the only one. > So, what gives? What's the magical difference about my ISP that I don't > have to make life difficult for other people by mangling my email address, > and making them go through contortions to reply to me? I don't know. My ISP uses spamassassin at source, so all the junk comes in nicely labelled. I can ignore / delete most of it. Personally I've never found the need to block any particular person, although I might use the 'ignore thread' function in kmail just to cut out the discussions I'm not interested in. Some days I lose entire mornings just reading email. My choice, but it's much more of a problem than spam or individual attitudes. Isn't this more of a problem for people who still use Windows? cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
