Probably shouldn't say anything as my email was just hacked 2 days ago.
However, it was the first time in the 15 years or so I've had the account. I
have no idea what happened. I found the stuff on my secondary computer
that I don't use very much; although it is connected to the internet.
I don't necessarily recommend AOL; but, it was my first email account and
the spam filter works well. There is a report spam button that actually
seems to work; the system learns and what junk I receive usually goes
straight to spam. That is only about 3-5 a day. It gets confused by the
[QSL]
reflector some, but, that's not much of a problem.
What I did notice from my being "hacked" is that much of the spam sent from
my account was tagged by AOL with the "X-SPAM-FLAG: YES" which resulted in
the email being bounced by MDaemon. So lot's of the folks in my address
book did not receive the spam. There were five different subjects generated
so I am trying to determine which ones were tagged and not. Stuff
originated from Fr Guiana.
I agree with all that I don't like the "send request" feature that some
use to filter their email. I prepare the newsletter the for local radio club
and since I use a list, I'll get some bounces that create extra work.
Best - Jere, KT4ZB
In a message dated 4/23/2013 7:59:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jimworth at me.com writes:
I agree. I find it annoying when someone emails me a question or request
for for help and then expects me to deal with their spam service to be able
to reply.
You may also find you miss emails from organizations and professionals you
want to hear from, such as your bank, investment firm, lawyer, doctor,
dentist, ARRL, radio club, etc. In most cases, they won't take the time to
deal with filling out a form for the privilege of emailing you.
I find that having a good email filter that places suspected spam in a
separate "Junk" folder and learns from your decisions about what is junk mail,
works best. I can scan my Junk folder once or twice a day in less than a
minute, based on the sender and subject. Most of the time, everything in the
folder is spam and I can delete it all with two clicks. In my case, the
filtering is done by Apple Mail, but there are plenty of other effective ones.
Jim AD4J
On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Lee Hiers <_lee.hiers at gmail.com_
(mailto:lee.hiers at gmail.com) > wrote:
Another problem with Spamarrest and similar "services" is that some of us
refuse to deal with the BS.
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