Text 13771, 73 rader
Skriven 2005-12-23 11:06:21 av Alan Zisman (1:106/2000.0)
  Kommentar till text 13756 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: 12 bay tower!
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-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 AZ> JE> Just read in the paper this morning that spam was/is decreasing!
 AZ> JE> Not here, It seems to be multiplying judging by the amount I am
 AZ> JE> receiving!

 AZ>That's a mis-reading of the report of the US FTC to Congress... they
claimed
 AZ>that the CAN-SPAM legislation was a success because even though spam
accounte
 JE> d
 AZ>for fully 70% of all email in the past year, the rate of increase was
 AZ>decreasing.

 AZ>(Once something gets to 70% of anything, it's rate of increase tends to
slow
 AZ>down-- there just isn't that much more room for growth!)

 JE> That makes sense! I was going solely by the rate my individual spam
 JE> reception is increasing. In the last 2/3 months it has mushroomed.
 JE> In retrospect, I suspect that somehow my email address has been
 JE> collected by spammers from some of my correspondents that include
 JE> everybody's address in the email they send out when forwarding.

Spam filtering technology has gotten much better-- and many ISPs have
implimented it at their end... As a result, even with spam accounting for 70%
of all messages circulated, many users see hardly any of it in their inbox. You
may want to check whether that's the case for you-- I know my local cable
company has filtering available, but hasn't done a good job telling customers
about it-- individuals have to log into their webmail service and turn it on in
the webmail options.

As well, depending what you use as email client software at home, there may be
spam filtering that you can apply at your end-- in some cases free, in other
cases, relatively low-cost. Best results are from using both network and
individual spam filtering-- and checking the 'junk mailboxes' from time to time
for false positives.

 AZ>More accurate reporting at:

 AZ>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6003071.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

 JE> Thanks

 JE> How on earth do you, among a few others, manage to keep up with so
 JE> terribly much in the personal computer realm? I appreciate your and the
 JE> other's knowledge and help very much.

 JE> I certainly cant/couldn't. :-(

Three main ways:

1) I subscribe to a number of email newsletters about technology news from
CNet, Ziff-Davis, among others... and scan their headlines-- though I don't
make any claims to read the vast bulk of their stories.

2) I keep an RSS-feed program running as a tray icon, which checks about 10
sources regularly, letting me know when there are new stories. Again, I only
actually read a few of them.

3) When there are individual questions (either my own or other people's) that I
want to follow up on, Google is invaluable.

I can't claim to be an expert on everything (or on anything, really)... but
there are a number of areas I try to stay on top of-- security: spyware, virus,
spam, etc is one of them. (Writing a weekly column for a local business
newspaper means I need to generate 51 stories a year-- giving me a modest
financial incentive to keep up with news that I can recycle). In this case,
your post occured within 24-48 hrs of my saving a link to the story I quoted--
which is about the window the opportunity for me to remember where I saw it.
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