It was 27 Jul 2007, when Ardell Faul commented:
> The only filter needed resides inside one's head. I have NEVER gotten any
> porn by accident, in 10 years, being on line 24 hours a day for the last 5
> years. I get about 250 emails every day, about 100 are spam, easy to
> recognize, and respond well to Delete.
>
> Ardell Faul
Ya know, it's funny, I have a couple DNSBL filters on my Mercury mail
server or MTA. I have something called SpamHalter on my MTA, which tags
but doesn't delete spam. And I have actually stopped receiving any spam
at all. Don't even see tagged spam, literally none. Only time I see spam
is in the handful of newsgroups I follow, and I don't see much of that
either, anymore.
I'm beginning to be tempted to disable all my filtering, just to remind
myself why I'm bothering.
OTOH, I don't receive spam on any of the "popular" targets, so maybe
that's it. And maybe the spam fighters who refuse to receive my emails
(because my IP is dynamic) are doing a disservice to the actual victims;
maybe the secret is to not have an email address at, for example,
%2A%40msn.com">*
msn.com, or %2A%40name-your-isp.com">*name-your-isp.com.
Doesn't seem reasonable, but go figure. Where's all my spam? Don't they
like me anymore? <pout>
I'm feeling like I'm not really part of Web 2.0.
Anybody got Al Gore's home number? He invented this stuff, and I gotta
complaint.
<grin>
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