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@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
Another problem with Spamarrest and similar "services" is that
some of us refuse to deal with the BS.
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