Email spam explosion?

Oh, indeed it does. IBM has passed it on to a company that markets it now as "eCom station" or some such (I have the eCom upgrade but have not yet installed it owing to a fear of downtime if something gets stuck).

There are a lot of people who still believe that OS/2 was and is the best overall desktop os ever. Its chief drawback nowadays is the diminishing driver support from hardware makers, but things have scarcely reached a critical level or anything.

I keep thinking of moving to Linux, but then I look at the stuff on the test Linux box my lady uses for her computer system, and look back at my os/2 box, and ask myself, "Self, are you nuts?"

 

Further note:

It turns out that the last time I communicated witha rep of my host, either I didn't articulate my question adequately or he was a bit of a slowcoach, because I do have filtering capability.

This arose because spam took yet another quantum leap a few days ago. When I woke up and went online for the day, I couldn't access my email. A quick call revealed that I was blocked off because, in 10 hours, my mailbox contents had risen from zero to--wait for it--601 megabytes. That's about 60 Megabytes of mail--essentially all spam--an hour: a megabyte a minute. I didn't know they could receive email at that pace.

Well, as it turns out, I can set up "recipes" for each domain I own, where a "recipe" is basically a whitelist and a blacklist. So I whitelist a couple of real addresses (typically "webmaster@xxx.xxx") and blacklist generically anything not whitelisted. Lo! Digestion flows like a river, all is well.

Why couldn't the ^%^&#$()^%^s have told me this @#*%^#$%^& before??!?!!?

 

If you dont have server side blocking or want secondary spam filtering or email classification then POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net) is the way to go.

This to is free and small ... you teach what is spam and not spam, after the first month its filtering about 99% of the spam i receive.

 

I'm surprised to hear that Yahoo does such "a great job at filtering the spam out." My junk email is a yahoo account because that is where I can't seem to keep my email list clean, no matter what I do. I currently use Google Chrome and am distressed when one sneaks through the filter. After experiencing what some of you have gone through I spent a lot of money on anti spyware and found that a lot of my email problems were from the bots and trojans, etc. Once I got my system finally cleaned up I have been a much happier camper.

 

Forum spam can be called when someone replies to a thread that has been dead for 9 years!!!! Not so relevant when so much can change in 6 months time.

 

Yeah, I totally agree with you, I think you should take at least a few years to be considered as a spam post.