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Fakename wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have recently dumped a paid anti-spam system/service that I was happy
> with until the company decided to upgrade the service. I have considered
> it to be a downgrade and consequently I have since terminated the service.
>
<snip>

Find a new and better email hosting service that will do what you want,
or run your own mailserver on your friend's internet connection such
that you control the spam filtering.

EMB wrote:
> Fakename wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I have recently dumped a paid anti-spam system/service that I was
>> happy with until the company decided to upgrade the service. I have
>> considered it to be a downgrade and consequently I have since
>> terminated the service.
>>
> <snip>
>
> Find a new and better email hosting service that will do what you want,
> or run your own mailserver on your friend's internet connection such
> that you control the spam filtering.

As a half way measure install Mailwasher. (it's free) It downloads just
the name of the sender, and the subject line allowing you to delete
everything you don't want to waste time downloading.

"Bugalugs" <> wrote in message
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> EMB wrote:
>> Fakename wrote:
>>> Hi people,
>>>
>>> I have recently dumped a paid anti-spam system/service that I was happy
>>> with until the company decided to upgrade the service. I have considered
>>> it to be a downgrade and consequently I have since terminated the
>>> service.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Find a new and better email hosting service that will do what you want,
>> or run your own mailserver on your friend's internet connection such that
>> you control the spam filtering.
>
> As a half way measure install Mailwasher. (it's free) It downloads just
> the name of the sender, and the subject line allowing you to delete
> everything you don't want to waste time downloading.


Plus the ability to bounce the email making it appear you have a "no such
address"
But that said... My ISP (Xtra) blocks 99/100 spams that would otherwise come
my way.
Of the 1 or 2 that make it through each day, Windows Mail junk mails most of
them.
The most that spam affects my daily life is me having to delete 1 or less
emails per day.
Of those that do actually make it to my inbox, no info is sent back to the
Mother Ship as that is blocked on various levels.

How badly are you being swamped?

"Fakename" <> wrote in message
news:MVQWl.109695$...
> Jack Spratt wrote:
>> "Bugalugs" <> wrote in message
>> news:h0eoe7$bv8$...
>>> EMB wrote:
>>>> Fakename wrote:
>>>>> Hi people,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have recently dumped a paid anti-spam system/service that I was
>>>>> happy with until the company decided to upgrade the service. I have
>>>>> considered it to be a downgrade and consequently I have since
>>>>> terminated the service.
>>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Find a new and better email hosting service that will do what you want,
>>>> or run your own mailserver on your friend's internet connection such
>>>> that you control the spam filtering.
>>>
>>> As a half way measure install Mailwasher. (it's free) It downloads just
>>> the name of the sender, and the subject line allowing you to delete
>>> everything you don't want to waste time downloading.
>>
>>
>> Plus the ability to bounce the email making it appear you have a "no such
>> address"
>> But that said... My ISP (Xtra) blocks 99/100 spams that would otherwise
>> come my way.
>> Of the 1 or 2 that make it through each day, Windows Mail junk mails most
>> of them.
>> The most that spam affects my daily life is me having to delete 1 or less
>> emails per day.
>> Of those that do actually make it to my inbox, no info is sent back to
>> the Mother Ship as that is blocked on various levels.
>>
>> How badly are you being swamped?
>
> I get anywhere between 70 and 100 unwanted spam each day.
>
> I am a kiwi but was in Frys about a month ago. Frys is a BIG US
> electronics/computer store. Looking at some books on the shelf I was
> shocked to see a f'n book for sale teaching you how to send mass mail... A
> title in disguise about how to send spam. That f'n thing needs to be taken
> off the market!


Not if the mass mailing is a subscribed service or other.

Fakename wrote:

> I get anywhere between 70 and 100 unwanted spam each day.

Ok, so a minor problem not the flood that you made out initially.

> I am a kiwi but was in Frys about a month ago. Frys is a BIG US
> electronics/computer store. Looking at some books on the shelf I was
> shocked to see a f'n book for sale teaching you how to send mass mail...
> A title in disguise about how to send spam. That f'n thing needs to be
> taken off the market!

Sending bulk mail is made very hard because of the measures that people
take with spam filters etc - a book on how to get your emails thru is a
very valid publication.