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I'm mad as hell... and I'll take it for one more dayKevin Werbach is right. This last day could very well be the day email died. I am still getting one email per minute. I am even more pissed off at Microsoft. And even though I am seriously looking at how to do whitelisting/challenge-response in cc, I know that's only half of the solution since emails still clog my server inbox, and at 110 MB per day it's nothing to be sneered at. If this keeps up I will ditch email. I'll give it one day, starting now. In the meantime I am looking at the latest version of Red Hat Linux. I still use Win XP as my OS, and I have to use it for development and such, but this is just abuse, even if I haven't been harrassed as others have been. The great Microsoft exodus should begin momentarily. Update: From the comments, I guess that what I said wasn't clear (reading it over I admit it was a bit muddled :-)). The email I'm receiving has nothing whatsoever to do with me running Windows. I am being spammed with viruses from people that are infected. I am not contributing to the spread in any way. My email is received in a Linux box that I use for hosting. Essentially what Nex6 was saying in the comments. The only way I would have to stop these things from showing up in my mailbox is to put a virus filter at the SMTP level that would bounce to the sender when attempting to send the virus, but I don't have the software, I don't have the time to look for it, and I don't have the time to install it. Furthermore, I don't want to have to go through all this crap because of ActiveX and the shoddy security model of Windows. So. Point number one is that if this keeps up by tomorrow I will disable my email account. Maybe switch to a new name. That will get the email bounced with no work on my part. I have specifically been thinking how I would simply stop using email at all. I am sure that it can be done. I just need to think of the cases that I want to cover, and how... And then, point number two is to start ditching MS stuff whenever I kind, my own tiny bit of protesting. Like Scott says: Outlook is a joke. No sane computer user today should use it. If your company makes you use it, go to your CEO and explain how much time and money his company is losing by using it. I use Eudora; there are several other good non-Microsoft products depending on what platform you're on.Yes. Yes. Definitely. And clevercactus is one. But any client will do. The madness has to stop. Mass exodus now! Categories: technology Posted by diego on August 20 2003 at 12:54 PM Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
I don't really understand the statement "the Use a bayesian filtering system to ditch the emails into a 'virus' folder. I haven't actually been getting any myself, but if they can identify spam (as mine does 99% of the time) it should be able to detect virus-ridden mails. Posted by: Andrew Ducker at August 20, 2003 1:50 PMMy brother had a hundred of those come in overnight. And he got two more just while receiving his email. You are obviously not alone. :) Posted by: Daniel Von Fange at August 20, 2003 2:00 PMThis is why, I don't give out my email address, and I have public Email address as filters. so I have one or 2 "clean" Email address, that NEVER get spam or unwanted EMail's. AS much, as I like to tell people to use Linux, in this case it wont help you. Because this is a case of other people who are getting infected and there windows machines are useing their address books and such to send emails to everyone on the list, you are receiving them as Emails, even if you use MUTT, a shell based *nix Email client you would still get them. and Email address, should be protected I always consult people to have a privite and public address. and use filters. This protects the "clean" address from spam and unwanted email's and allows you to have a premente Email address with worry of it getting bombed with spam and virus infected email's. altho, Linux WOULD help there and Linux's design doens't allow the kind of things that windows Email virus allow. Nex6 Posted by: Nex6 at August 20, 2003 2:49 PMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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