On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: <snip> > > Then that is my mistake; I offer my apology to you and to Ross. I > found out about it several days ago during a normal routine check of > services offered on earthlink's web site, and immediately turned it on,
I did the same. > which has resulted in the removal of about 1.4MB per day of Swens. All > were cleaned by removal of infected attachments and I received the > remainder of the disinfected items. Since my recent trial of Mutt, I noticed an added X-ETLK-AV header every since. Ok for putting things in /dev/null. > > Incidentally, there has been expressed a dislike of earthlink's spam > filtering. It's working well for me personally; however maybe it's worth > noting that no-one is forcing earthlink subscribers to use earthlink's > filtering. If one doesn't like it and wishes to do it oneself, one can > turn it off. I have it on Medium and 99% of results are ok, so I just have to check it once a month for obvious mistakes. But it doesnt seem to remember my corrections 100%. > > I carry no torch for earthlink. I was just trying to correct an > inaccurate characterization of their services. > > The best ISP I used was a local one: magicnet.net of Orlando. > Unfortunately, they were bought out by a national enterprise: Verio, was > it? Yup, started with pipeline which became mindspring which became earthink . Same result, less responsive. can't remember the name now, I've blotted it from my memory, like the > survivor of a traffic accident. Anyway, they completely destroyed a first > class service in a stunningly short period of time. > > Like the nun who prayed daily for Jesus' return "tomorrow", I continue to > pray for the return of local ISPs who endeavor to excel because they > actually give a crap for their customers and not just for the content of > their wallets. I once belived in the Great Pumkin, Too! Oh, Well. -Kev
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