On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:39:05 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs. Down from ~5/hr three days ago. Theory: > >If you don't post to this list for many days, the infected machines > >which have your email address in their lists of targets gradually get > >disinfected, and your incoming swen gradually goes to zero. But, if you > >post, you run the > >risk of a new wave of swen. > > That is why all of my posting is now done through this hotmail account, > which I use for nothing else. So far, I have received no spam of any sort > through it. It is not ending up in the bulk mail box. It simply is not > coming in at all. Either no one (including SWEN) has found the box yet, or > hotmail is actually doing a proper job of filtering he mess. Could > MicroSquish actually have done something right, for a change?
...if the alternative is everyone saying "don't use hotmail, you'll get virused to @$#%" they probably have... their own mail service screwing up their own OS wouldn't look very good. I find swen to be highly variable; I got several hundred yesterday but only a few tens today. My gut feeling is that's just a blip on the curve. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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