My baby is too old. I am referring to my 3-year-old Acer 382 notebook. It has served me well, done its job with little complaint and with good speed, but in the last few weeks it has shown signs of failure. Time for a new notebook. To preserve the last bit of life in this notebook I decided to use an even older Acer notebook until my new notebook arrives.
For the last eight months I have been using Thunderbird as my email client. Thunderbird has many useful features that make me more productive. One of these features is a spam filter. Thunderbird learns what email is spam by a clever heuristic algorithm. The spam is then automatically moved to a junk-mail folder leaving only good email in your in-box. Any new-style spam that escapes the spam filter can be destroyed with a simple command and from then on, any similar emails will automatically be junked. On the rear occasions that wanted email is falsely identified as spam, a simple command allows you to redefine it as not junk, and future similar emails will be treated as good mail.
Eight months seems a little time, and maybe I am just spoiled, but reverting back to Outlook Express is proving to be one of the worst experiences that I have had with the Internet. It seems that the amount of spam has exploded this year. Like crime, if you live in a safe area you tend to forget that criminals are active, Using Thunderbird reduces spam from an absolute communication destroying plague, to just a small time and bandwidth wasting nuisance. I had forgotten how bad it really is.
We can thank the world's Internet Service Providers for helping to fight spam. Many of the ISP's use both heuristic algorithms and black lists to block bulk email from spammers from propagating on the Internet. Without them our local email speed and bandwidth would be further compromised by the nefarious efforts of the spam creating low life.
Question: Who is worse; the spammers or the Internet users who read and support the spammers? Responding to an unsolicited email should be made a crime equal in penalty to sending an unsolicited email. I'd love to see a headline that says; "Dozens of Internet users charged with the crime of responding to spam after police sting operation." Only when spam pays less than it costs (which for the spammer is nothing) will we be able to free the Internet of this menace.
I can't wait for me new notebook to arrive. The first program I install will be Thunderbird.
For the last eight months I have been using Thunderbird as my email client. Thunderbird has many useful features that make me more productive. One of these features is a spam filter. Thunderbird learns what email is spam by a clever heuristic algorithm. The spam is then automatically moved to a junk-mail folder leaving only good email in your in-box. Any new-style spam that escapes the spam filter can be destroyed with a simple command and from then on, any similar emails will automatically be junked. On the rear occasions that wanted email is falsely identified as spam, a simple command allows you to redefine it as not junk, and future similar emails will be treated as good mail.
Eight months seems a little time, and maybe I am just spoiled, but reverting back to Outlook Express is proving to be one of the worst experiences that I have had with the Internet. It seems that the amount of spam has exploded this year. Like crime, if you live in a safe area you tend to forget that criminals are active, Using Thunderbird reduces spam from an absolute communication destroying plague, to just a small time and bandwidth wasting nuisance. I had forgotten how bad it really is.
We can thank the world's Internet Service Providers for helping to fight spam. Many of the ISP's use both heuristic algorithms and black lists to block bulk email from spammers from propagating on the Internet. Without them our local email speed and bandwidth would be further compromised by the nefarious efforts of the spam creating low life.
Question: Who is worse; the spammers or the Internet users who read and support the spammers? Responding to an unsolicited email should be made a crime equal in penalty to sending an unsolicited email. I'd love to see a headline that says; "Dozens of Internet users charged with the crime of responding to spam after police sting operation." Only when spam pays less than it costs (which for the spammer is nothing) will we be able to free the Internet of this menace.
I can't wait for me new notebook to arrive. The first program I install will be Thunderbird.
