On 10/27/2014 11:38 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
Helppppppp !!
Over the last few days for no apparent reason my Mac has
become inundated with spam e-mails. They are picked up by my spam filter but the
situation is crazy ! Today I have had 38 "real " messages and 123 spam...and
still counting. The vast majority purport to come from four supermarket chains...with
others offering discount travel offers and Russian Girlfriends (sounds promising)
most state to unsubscribe"click here" - nothing happens or write to ....zero
gravity N Kerr Ave Wilmington NC.
It is driving me crazy. Is there any alternative to changing my e-mail
address..which would be VERY inconvenient.
Yes, change your attitude. Getting upset at spam is much like railing when the sun goes down. There is nothing you can
do to stop it, so all you are doing is, as you say, driving yourself crazy.
What surprised me is that you know how much you receive. I never pay the number of spam emails any attention. Just
looked at my primary, many year old email account on Yahoo. It says there are 2037 Spam messages. But I don't know what
that means in number per day, as they fall off the end into the bit bucket at some point. Seems like plenty to allow me
to retrieve any real mail that got caught in the spam filter if I become aware I've missed something.
I almost never see any in my list email, but that's because Gmail filters them out before Thunderbird downloads my mail.
Hmmm, I just went and checked. There are only three spam messages in Gmail. Don't know what that means, either. Pretty
sure it doesn't matter, though. I get almost zero spam coming through and haven't lost a list message temporarily to the
filter for ages, since I made some adjustment.
What I do know is that the Yahoo and Gmail spam filters are really good. As long as your spam filter is working
properly, why fret?
Laissez Faire Moose
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