spam

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 07/17/2011 06:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Have you people noticed an excessive number of spam emails from gMail accounts in the pass couple of weeks? Others too. I flag them as spam with my ISP (cox), but it does no good. I'm using Apple's Mail application. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm about to drop Cox and an email address I've been using for at least 15 years because of this. TIA,
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> Joe Wilkins
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Not noticeably. I use Thunderbird, both on Mac and Linux, to look at my 
e-mail;
through a crappy Bulgarian ISP that does not filter anything whatsoever. 
I average
about 2 spam e-mails a week.

Now my Yahoo account is another story altogether, attracting about 3-4 
spams a day.

Frankly, my experience with Apple's Mail app was distinctly negative, 
added to the
fact that I am Biplatformal (work that one out) and like to minimise the 
cognitive effort across platforms, I have been using Thunderbird for 
about 4 years now to
access my gmail account with never a backward look.