[Elecraft] Please do not use Earthlink's spam blocker

[Floyd Sense]

I'd be interested in knowing how you folks who are NOT "unable to handle
SPAM yourself" handle this situation.  A recent virus that spread through
the ham community generated messages with large attachments (145K)
appearing to come from Microsoft.  If you "handle it yourself", I assume
that your tools allow the downloads to occur and I wonder how you deal with
30-50 of these 145K messages per day on a dial line?

I believe that I offered a very reasonable compromise that would allow
Earthlink users to continue to use their Spamblocker while still not
generating the objectionable return messages to Elecraft.  Naturally, I
don't rely 100% on Earthlink, and use my own methods for further flushing
out and eliminating spam.  Thus far, I haven't found a tool however that
prevents the download of the large message attachments other than the
Earthlink spamblocker.  If you know of another approach to this, perhaps you
can share it with us.

K8AC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Riley (maillist)" <n1bq_list@wulfden.org>
To: "Elecraft List" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Please do not use Earthlink's spam blocker
<<snip>>

> This problem is really quite simple as is most of life's decisions. For
> every action there are consequences. You weigh off the pros and cons of a
> given decision, make your choice and then live with it.
>
> If you are unable to handle SPAM yourself without using one of the heavy
> handed services that generate the kind of crap Eric mentions then you need
> to give up the list. If the list is more important, then you need to
handle
> it yourself.  It really isn't hard, just engage your brain and think on
it.
>
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