--- klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 13:50, Sidney Brooks > wrote: > > > > --- klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > My Swen volume had dropped to a managable one > per > > > day since my last > > > > post here around six weeks ago. I posted last > > > night (helping > > > > someone fight Swen), and this morning, there > were > > > 20+ Swens, over 3 > > > > Megabytes. I was *that* close to losing > e-mail. > > > Never again. > > > > > > > I get about 2 'real' Swens (with virus formerly > > > attached) and 4 warnings about > > > Swen from some dummies a day. > > > You might be barking up the wrong tree here. > > > > > > Klaus > > > > > Unlike many of you, I am not a computer > professional > > or computer expert. In order to get Debian to > work, I > > needed help from this site. The price has been the > > endless spam, almost all which has either MS or > > Microsoft in the return addresses. > > > I am nowhere even near of being any kind of expert > on anything. > I use kmail with my regular ISP mail account for > this list - just to make the > point of how much of a no-expert I really am. > If you got an account with a ISP that doesn't filter > for viruses get rid of > your ISP. > Otherwise its easy to filter those out by the > warnings from the ISP. > All you are stuck with by then is the usual spam > which is a lot but you need > something to train spamassassin with ;-) > I can see people with dialup accounts or guys > running mail servers (if > somebody runs a mail server and doesn't know how to > get rid of that stuff - > well,don't run one then) having a problem with this > but other than that it's > just an annoyance. > Anyway,some kind of forum kind of deal instead of a > mailing list would > probably help but this will not happen. > It is easy for you to say. I live in a rural area where we are lucky to have one ISP. >
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