I disagree, Moose.
I find Spam an invasion and I will not put up with it. Reporting with
spamcop.net <http://spamcop.net/> helps to reduce it. And in the UK you can
complain to the Information Commissioner who will send a notice to cease to
British companies. One company near London was sending me 3 or 4 emails a week
until I lodged a complaint with the ICO.
We don’t have to lie back and accept it . . .
Chris
> On 27 Oct 14, at 19:12, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
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