Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/

In message , Joe Egginton
writes
You must be damn lucky Pete. I get tons of spam to my e-mail address I
use as a return address when I post to newsgroups.

I use a 'throwaway', but real yahoo email address for newsgroup postings
and it works very well. Better than using a 'munged' address, and most
of the spam generated by the newsgroup postings just goes straight into
the bulk folder on yahoo. I check for mail fairly regularly just in case
anything genuine goes in, but don't use the yahoo address for any
personal mail, so that doesn't happen often. I also use the yahoo
address if I need to register for anything online that I'm not 100 per
cent sure of.
--
Anita Evans
North Cumbria (please reply to )

In message , Joe Egginton
writes
You must be damn lucky Pete. I get tons of spam to my e-mail address I
use as a return address when I post to newsgroups.

I use a 'throwaway', but real yahoo email address for newsgroup postings
and it works very well. Better than using a 'munged' address, and most
of the spam generated by the newsgroup postings just goes straight into
the bulk folder on yahoo. I check for mail fairly regularly just in case
anything genuine goes in, but don't use the yahoo address for any
personal mail, so that doesn't happen often. I also use the yahoo
address if I need to register for anything online that I'm not 100 per
cent sure of.
--
Anita Evans
North Cumbria (please reply to )

In message , Joe Egginton
writes
You must be damn lucky Pete. I get tons of spam to my e-mail address I
use as a return address when I post to newsgroups.

I use a 'throwaway', but real yahoo email address for newsgroup postings
and it works very well. Better than using a 'munged' address, and most
of the spam generated by the newsgroup postings just goes straight into
the bulk folder on yahoo. I check for mail fairly regularly just in case
anything genuine goes in, but don't use the yahoo address for any
personal mail, so that doesn't happen often. I also use the yahoo
address if I need to register for anything online that I'm not 100 per
cent sure of.
--
Anita Evans
North Cumbria (please reply to )

In article , dated Mon, 16 May 2005,
Jonathan Stott wrote
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

Turnpike has a very useful feature which rejects without downloading
anything addressed to an email name which you have blacklisted, and/or
one it doesn't recognise. This means that only stuff addressed to
current valid names gets through into the mailboxes. Which is all very
well if you're on broadband, you hardly notice the time it takes to
bounce 1000 rubbish mails - I unfortunately was travelling when I got
hit, and doing this via dial-up, though still quicker than trying to use
Outlook or Outlook Express, was not fun.
--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally

In article , dated Mon, 16 May 2005,
Jonathan Stott wrote
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

Turnpike has a very useful feature which rejects without downloading
anything addressed to an email name which you have blacklisted, and/or
one it doesn't recognise. This means that only stuff addressed to
current valid names gets through into the mailboxes. Which is all very
well if you're on broadband, you hardly notice the time it takes to
bounce 1000 rubbish mails - I unfortunately was travelling when I got
hit, and doing this via dial-up, though still quicker than trying to use
Outlook or Outlook Express, was not fun.
--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally

In article , dated Mon, 16 May 2005,
Jonathan Stott wrote
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

Turnpike has a very useful feature which rejects without downloading
anything addressed to an email name which you have blacklisted, and/or
one it doesn't recognise. This means that only stuff addressed to
current valid names gets through into the mailboxes. Which is all very
well if you're on broadband, you hardly notice the time it takes to
bounce 1000 rubbish mails - I unfortunately was travelling when I got
hit, and doing this via dial-up, though still quicker than trying to use
Outlook or Outlook Express, was not fun.
--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 16 May 2005 at 09:03:01, Jonathan Stott wrote
:
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

You can stop all those of the type

I've set it up to block anything other than my exact email address. That
seems to block 99% of spam.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 16 May 2005 at 09:03:01, Jonathan Stott wrote
:
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

You can stop all those of the type

I've set it up to block anything other than my exact email address. That
seems to block 99% of spam.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 16 May 2005 at 09:03:01, Jonathan Stott wrote
:
Paul Hyett wrote:

I collect mail via POP3 now (using Turnpike), so I never get to see
these spam floods, thank goodness.

How is collecting email using POP3 going to stop spam?

You can stop all those of the type

I've set it up to block anything other than my exact email address. That
seems to block 99% of spam.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham