[Lowfer] spamming

[Lyle Koehler]

One other trick that helps, if only a little bit, in Outlook Express: I'm
using SpamPal, which together with my message rules catches nearly all of
the stuff that gets through my ISP's Spam filter, and dumps it in the
Deleted Items folder. When I click on Send/Receive, I make sure that I have
first selected the Deleted Items folder (which I have previously empted). If
you are already in that folder when messages come in, you can view the
sender and subject but no message opens until you click on one of them.
Usually they are all garbage, so I just empty the folder. It would be much
better if Outlook Express simply let you choose whether or not to open html
messages, but that apparently isn't an option.

My ISP also has a webmail server that lets me look at all incoming messages
before they are downloaded. When the Sobig virus was making the rounds and I
still had a slow dialup connection, that was the only way to survive.
Otherwise I'd have to download a couple of dozen e-mails containing 100 kB
attachments every day. Sounds like Mailwasher accomplishes the same thing,
and gives you the option of bouncing the message. That might at least
provide some satisfaction.

The only real solution would be to invoke the death penalty for Spammers,
and something harsher for those who sell Spam-generating software and e-mail
lists.

Lyle