[Scottish] Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs and chips, without the spam please?

Robert Lazzurs lazzurs at lazzurs.net
Wed Nov 19 13:19:05 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 22:45, Phil Deane wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> It has been over 2 months now since this bloody virus starting sending emails 
> to people, and I am still getting up to 100 a day. I know this because I 
> installed spamassassin at the time, which is good at filtering out 
> spams.(Over 2000 in 2 months!!!, not including virus!)
> 
> But these fecking things are not spams, and are getting through, on a dial up 
> modem it kills me to have to download 11Mb of email when I come home from 
> work, for maybe 100 real 2 k emails and the rest 154K virus'
> 
> It must stop, it is driving me mad. I didn't want to us the likes of 
> mailfilter as then I dint get an option of what I delete, it just does it, 
> but it might be my only option.
> 
> Advice anyone?

Can your ISP not provide virus filtering?

Take care - RL

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