Spam, spam, spam, ham and spam
The Cloudmark Spamnet I have installed on my Outlook e-mail moves most spam out of my way before I even see it. (Between 6/26 and 7/12, it blocked 905 spam messages. That’s 53 a day.) But occasionally a few slip through, and I have to click on “block” to block them manually.
Most of the time I barely notice this activity. But sometimes, especially when they’re particularly good at constructing a “FROM:” and “SUBJECT:” line that I think might possibly be legit, I just want to reach through the computer and pound the sender’s head against a rock. Anyone else get that feeling?
i wish they had outlook express covered. i use oe at home for the newsgroup feature.
i feel for you though. 53 a day?! i get pissed when it goes over 10. tds (my provider) has some sort of spam blocker, but it seems to have stopped working in the last month.
I have just one email address that gets way more spam than all my others (the one from my domain, incidentally). My host has SpamAssassin installed, and does a pretty good job. Written in red text? 2 points. Cointains the term “viagra”? 3 points. If a mail gets over five points, it gets turned into a message from SpamAssassin, with the original mail attached. It works really well, but seems kind of pointless, since now I have 20 messages from it a day instead of actual spam. I don’t know how to fix it.
Grrr. It sucks being dumb and/or lazy.
And I, too, hate the spam that has no subject and a real name. I usually wipe it regardless – people should use the subject line as a five-word opportunity to convince the recipient that it’s not spam.