Comment Re:Spam works! (Score 1) 545
Spam only works if there are enough newbies about who think they are being offered something good.
Spam has almost killed e-mail as a useful tool. Six or seven years ago people would read their email and almost every letter I wrote was replied to. Today people get so much spam and rubbish mail that they delete great batches of it, sometimes deleting even messages from friends. I used to write 6-10 reply letters every day. Now I seldom reply by e-mail to any. If people are sending me important mail it comes on paper.
Sad but true.
A wonderful flowing means of communication has been turned into a sewer of unreadable useless muck. Luckily I can delete about 100 letters a day on the server. (Pegasus Mail) I use filters to sort my list mail into folders, and that leaves me about 15 letters to read. Manageable.
I've built a wall that keeps the spammers out.
Cheers John
Spam has almost killed e-mail as a useful tool. Six or seven years ago people would read their email and almost every letter I wrote was replied to. Today people get so much spam and rubbish mail that they delete great batches of it, sometimes deleting even messages from friends. I used to write 6-10 reply letters every day. Now I seldom reply by e-mail to any. If people are sending me important mail it comes on paper.
Sad but true.
A wonderful flowing means of communication has been turned into a sewer of unreadable useless muck. Luckily I can delete about 100 letters a day on the server. (Pegasus Mail) I use filters to sort my list mail into folders, and that leaves me about 15 letters to read. Manageable.
I've built a wall that keeps the spammers out.
Cheers John
