6th August 2005, 12:57 AM
No, I understand it as well. Spam is indeed a pretty terrible thing.
Here's the only truly surefire way to deal with it. Set your filters to only accept e-mail from preapproved addresses. Of course if you run a business where you must be able to stay in contact with any number of unknown strangers who may e-mail you at any time, you are screwed, but otherwise this will do the trick.
Here's the only truly surefire way to deal with it. Set your filters to only accept e-mail from preapproved addresses. Of course if you run a business where you must be able to stay in contact with any number of unknown strangers who may e-mail you at any time, you are screwed, but otherwise this will do the trick.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)