[Coco] queston?

[Frank Pittel]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:36:49PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 03:49 PM 4/11/2006, you wrote:
> 
> >> does anyone know or if anyone can contact Bill Gunshannon<about:blank> 
> >his
> >> email address is blocked
> >
> >Blocked by who?  MSN?  I suggest getting a reputable ISP.  I get close
> >to 100 emails a day between my two accounts here.  Or did you mean your
> >blocked, which means your email must be coming from a known SPAM address.
> >
> >bill
> 
> 
> 
> Oh now.  I recognize Mike Kandrac as one of my customers who has purchased 
> CoCo products, so I think he's good.
> 
> I might also add that spam filters are crazy enough as it is.  I get emails 
> that are tagged sometimes as spam even though they are from regular 
> senders, so I gave up long ago trying to cure a problem that hasn't even 
> begun to get bad YET.  We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what is 
> to come unless we adapt a better system of e-mail delivery.

I was getting ~200 pieces of spam a day finding it's way through my spam filter
when I noticed that most of it was coming from China, Russia, etc. When I blocked
those IP ranges on my mailserver the spam was reduced to 30-40 a day without a
filter!!