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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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