DeliciousTruffles wrote:
zxcvbob wrote:

George Shirley wrote:

I was getting 500-700 a day of the "SVEN.A" thank Barb. It's down to
about 20 a day now. My ISP was sending me messages that my mailbox
was full and I was sending them some to ask what the he** they were
doing to stop viruses from coming through their server. The answer I
got " we don't filter viruses because we might inadvertently invade
someone's privacy." I'm a looking for a high speed ISP now that does
filter the !@#$% viruses.


The swen worms were also filling up my 10MB server quota faster than I
could delete them.

I'm using Charter media, and they gave me the same bullshit answer.
After I harangued them enough times, they showed me where I could set
up my own filters on the server. I reject any message over 140k, and
I can handle the rest without much trouble. Every couple of days I
take the filter off for a little while to see if they're still coming
-- they are but they've slowed down quite a bit.


I had the best success with putting a spam block in my address. The
messages dropped down to about 10/day in about 12 hours.


I've been using my real email address for almost 10 years and it's never
been a problem. Also, the German news server I use requires a valid
(verifiable) email return address. My ISP has a less restrictive news
server, but I like the German one better. I could use a throwaway
account, like @yahoo or @hotmail, but I prefer people to be able to
reply to me directly at an account that I actually monitor.

Best regards,
Bob