Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117842] Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 02:35:12 -0500 (EST)
On 3/31/11 at 4:07 AM, btreat1 at austin.rr.com (DrMajorBob) wrote: >I agree with Helen; spam isn't that big an issue. It never really >was, even in the bad old days. My e-mail address has been out there >for ten years, and I get maybe ten spam messages a week. Since I have what I consider an effective filter system, I agree spam isn't a significant issue. But the level of spam I am seeing on this account that I only use for receiving list mail for this group and one or two others is quite a bit higher than you are indicating. For example, looking at my logs, I see I received 23 spam messages on this account alone today. And if I look at all my email accounts, I got 124 spam emails since noon yesterday out of a total of 231 email messages. If it was not for the filter system I have set up that segregates spam very efficiently, email for me would be unusable. I am not suggesting, the amount of spam I get is typical or due to my participation in this group. I am suggesting the level of spam messages you and Helen report may be atypically low. I would bet the level of spam messages seen by our esteemed moderator is likely at least as high as what I see. [I get more than 1,000 spams a day every day and have for many years. One filter reduces this to 10-20 and another filter to perhaps 1-2 that I actually see. These are used to "train" the filters further. -- Moderator]