2kmaro
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| reply to TamaraB
Re: Duhhhhhh I get NO SPAM!
Wouldn't it be in the spirit of this website to provide a description of the process you use to not get SPAM? Remember that most people don't have the luxury of actually controlling their own email server and don't want any added expense of signing up with some other service (besides their ISP) to receive email.
My own solution - both at work and at my residence is a 2 or 3 layered one:
My ISP (who's business service the company uses) does pretty good SPAM/phishing filtering at their end - it's user adjustable, but for the business side, we pretty much have to keep it 'loose' to make sure we don't lose any business related email. Meanwhile on the desktops (all using MSFT Outlook) we use a 3rd party filter: Cloudmark's Desktop ( www.cloudmark.com ). Very effective. Most people also have the Outlook built-in junk email filter turned on (not real great but does catch some stuff). So with that setup, people in our offices who used to see 40 to 100 SPAM mails a day now maybe see 1 or 2 hit their inbox once a week.
So in response to "do we care" - in a way I don't because the filtering is doing the job. On the other hand, yes I do because I have to pay an annual fee to keep a "SPAM free" inbox. That's besides the real world fact that the majority of traffic on the internet consists of SPAM emails - there'd be a whole lot more bandwidth for us all if they'd just nuke the entire SPAMming conglomerate! |
TamaraB
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| said by 2kmaro  :Wouldn't it be in the spirit of this website to provide a description of the process you use to not get SPAM? I pretty much did in an earlier post. The "key" is to use your work station as your personal inbound mail server. Today, with "always-on" connections, that's not a problem, nor is it difficulty.
This way, you have total control over what email you will allow into your Inbox, you can filter what is appropriate for your own personal needs, you can block, black-list, white-list..... etc. No one but you, can determine what is best in terms of email security. I do not tolerate any spam at all. I also will not tolerate missed "important" email (as defined by me). Email is "personal" and therefor it's control has to be "personalised".
Remember that most people don't have the luxury of actually controlling their own email server This is not a "luxury" these days. The facilities to do so are readily available. My DynDNS MX pointer costs $29.00/Year, my Domain costs $8.00/Year from GoDaddy. SMTP software is free. I use a pay outbound SMTP server instead of Verizon's SMTP server mainly because Verizon gets RBL listed often, and Verizon makes you lose the ability to control your From address (as does smtp.gmail.com; also FREE)
and don't want any added expense of signing up with some other service (besides their ISP) to receive email I understand. However the benefits of running your own email means that if you switch your ISP, you don't have to change your address. Your email address becomes independent of your ISP, and you have total control over spam, phishes, and viruses. The minimum cost is $37.00/Year; pretty cheap for what you get.
So in response to "do we care" ... On the other hand, yes I do because I have to pay an annual fee to keep a "SPAM free" inbox.
I care for entirely different reasons. I don't see $37.00/Year as any big deal, but I totally hate intrusive email spam, web spam, phone spam, fax spam, I find them terribly offensive. Of course, I come from the "old days" of the internet, where commercialization was illegal! I also can't tolerate web advertising, and have my graphical browsers shut down so tight that all I see is what I want to see, with NO ADS; mainly I use Lynx!
...the majority of traffic on the internet consists of SPAM emails ...
AND anoying Web adverts!
Yeah, we have become a nation of Ferengi!
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