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

Thu Jan 8 10:41:00 2004

Well, since this is pointed at me, and since I am on a dialup line, I will
answer. I set my system not to download any email over 75K, I then examine
the sampled headers and tell the system to delete it from the server if its
trash, and they are quite recognizable even w/o downloading them and mark
the legitimate attachments for subsequent download.

  Now I will say that 150K (actually what I was seeing here were 96 to 104K)
attachments aren't all that big of a deal. Back in the summer when that
virus was hitting  and before I dropped my threshold to 75K I was
downloading quite a bit of it and 20-30 100-200K  attachments just doesn't
take that long unless you have a really poor dialup line

Off course I will also add my obligatory Mac-smuggism ... My MacIntosh
doesn't care a whit for the viruses, they are aimed at all the of Gates'
victims!

On 1/7/04 11:53 AM, "Floyd Sense" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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)" <[email protected]>
> To: "Elecraft List" <[email protected]>
> 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.
>> 
> <<snip>>
> 
> 
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