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   Athel Cornish-Bowden to All   
   Re: Spam   
   19 May 18 11:27:42   
   
   From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-05-18 23:27:13 +0000, MB said:   
      
   > On 18/05/2018 20:21, Richard van Schaik wrote:   
   >> Any word used in current spam mail / posts can also occur in   
   >> transcriptions of past occurrences and questions about those events.   
   >> Makes it hard to filter correctly. My only filter is the kill option   
   >> Thunderbird gives.   
   >   
   > That's one problem there are often more people who reply to SPAM with   
   > silly comments than actual SPAM.   
   >   
   > Thunderbird "Ignore Thread" never seems to work effectively.   
   >   
   > It's like EMail SPAM, I try to reduce it but you can never eliminate   
   > completely and you can spend too much time worrying about it when   
   > sometimes best to just ignore it.   
      
   Around 1999 someone pointed out that creating a computer virus required   
   a lot of skill, but circulating warnings about computer viruses was   
   very easy!   
      
   --   
   athel   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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