I wonder about how many people find email useful when I have to have three levels of spam protection just to stem the tide. I get almost 1,000 spam messages per week. I only get about 100 legitimate pieces of personal mail. So that means that less than one in every ten messages is something that I actually want to read.
I'm an engineer, which means that by in large, I am ok with technology. Even so I find the need for three filter excessive. Hell, I find the need for a single filter excessive. I don't see why I should be paying to rid myself of this crap. The email is worthless, to anyone. I can't see one in a million even responding to it. It can't be worth the hassle to send out this much crap.
I also think that Viagra, Cialis and the other drug makers should stop selling to pharmacies that use email blasts, as they are known in the industry. What I think is funny is that the people that I have known who have paid for email blasts are also the people that complain bitterly about the spam in their email box.
Posted by jherr at March 16, 2004 08:22 AMI may need your spam filters I got 3 today, through the mail filter. I don't think pharmaceutical companies would even consider the actions your mentioned since those pharmacies makes them money.
Since your complaining about spam does that mean we're about to get blasted by CGN.
An interesting note. I get fewer than 5 spams a week and they are all from companies I have done mbusiness with.
Most of the junk I get are from people like KW although she doesn't bother me any more.
Lori, we can install Spamfire on your machine tonight when you get home or tomorrow. It takes a little getting used to, but it definitely reduces the amount of spam I see.
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