Silly spam
May. 22nd, 2008 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alitalf
I just saw a spam titled "stop wasting your time in despair".
One of the main sources of despair is the large quantity of spam I have to delete. The ISP has spam filtering that works fairly well, but it is not quite good enough. Nearly all the spam is diverted to a spam mailbox that I can access on-line - so far so good. Of the email I download, there is often more real mail than spam, which is pretty good since there are 1000 spams per day routinely and more in a heavy spam surge.
The problem is that if I leave the spam for over about half a day it is increasingly difficult to delete. The choices are to display 15 message headers at a time, or to display all. If I select all and hit the delete button, then if there are more than about 500 spams it is very likely that there will be an error message saying that the IMAP server dropped the connection, and I will find that no spam was deleted.
A help request to the ISP got me the answer that, for such a large amount of spam, I might be better to use local filtering tools. <sigh> How does that help save bandwidth?
One of the main sources of despair is the large quantity of spam I have to delete. The ISP has spam filtering that works fairly well, but it is not quite good enough. Nearly all the spam is diverted to a spam mailbox that I can access on-line - so far so good. Of the email I download, there is often more real mail than spam, which is pretty good since there are 1000 spams per day routinely and more in a heavy spam surge.
The problem is that if I leave the spam for over about half a day it is increasingly difficult to delete. The choices are to display 15 message headers at a time, or to display all. If I select all and hit the delete button, then if there are more than about 500 spams it is very likely that there will be an error message saying that the IMAP server dropped the connection, and I will find that no spam was deleted.
A help request to the ISP got me the answer that, for such a large amount of spam, I might be better to use local filtering tools. <sigh> How does that help save bandwidth?
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Date: 2008-05-22 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-22 12:00 pm (UTC)I think we are discussing different ISPs. This problem is on my own ISP where the spam filtering is quite different and les configurable than that on the TS hosting provider.
I am beginning to think I need a different hosting provider, but time and energy does not permit any time soon.
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Date: 2008-05-22 12:56 pm (UTC)I'd recommend either Demon or Zen.