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Re: Spam, Spam, Spam.... What To Do?

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On 2011-05-19 13:47:11 -0400, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> said:

> I currently use Mail.App and MobileMe for my email and I have to deal 
> with a seeming ever increasing amount of spam, currently about 100 spam 
> messages each day. With some exceptions, which unfortunately are ever 
> increasing, the spam is not placed in the Junk mailbox. As an example I 
> recently received 16 instances of the same spam email, the instances 
> each sent a few minutes apart, which were not recognized as spam. It 
> appears that the senders of the spam are becoming increasingly skilled 
> at creating their messages in a manner that the spam filter doesn't 
> identify them as spam. It is an annoyance to have to each day to both 
> identify spam that is not recognized as such and by going through the 
> Junk mailbox looking for the occasional mdesage that is mistakenly 
> placed there. I'm curious as to whether others have methods to reduce 
> this nuisance.

That will happen with all mail clients, it's the mail client. To get 
rid of it, you can download a program like SpamSieve, which works with 
all mail clients to filter spam. I hope this was of use. 

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Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2011-05-19 12:47 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? heron stone <heronDO@gendo.net> - 2011-05-19 12:19 -0700
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-05-20 19:42 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2011-05-22 19:06 +0100
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2011-05-24 22:23 -0500
  Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? superhappyfuntime - 2011-07-09 20:53 -0400
    Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 2011-07-09 23:53 -0400
    Re: Spam, Spam, Spam....  What To Do? yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-07-10 17:38 +1200

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