Spam from National Semiconductor

Ziff-Davis also seems to be impossible to unsubscribe from.

I now read my email by logging on to my ISP's site and going to Mail. There, I can report incoming mail as SPAM and have sources blocked.

One that really annoyed me was Penn State Univ. I have no idea how they got my info. but was getting all kinds of stuff from them, which seemed to be directed at alumni. Same thing; could not unsubscribe and had to report them as a spam source.

Here is one that is still going on. An individual reported her new email address to her world of friends before checking with her new ISP to make sure that it was available (it was not, as it was in use by me). This has been going on now for over a year. First, one tries to be polite and asks that folks correct their address books and one finds that does not work.

Again, read your mail by logging on to your ISP's site and report the junk as spam. If you do not have this option, don't what else to say.

What's the matter with you people. Yes, some web-sites become so complicated they lose track of how to direct you to the correct OFF location. But it's really not an issue, because all their email can be eliminated by means of an easily-set filter. So I say, learn about your email's filters, and set them, and stop suffering and complaining.

Good advice, Win. Also, use a throw away account to register when you need to. If it gets too polluted you can change the few accounts you want to keep to a new account and close the old one. Earthlink gives me eight user accounts. I never use the master account, I have two for personal use, one for "Computers for Veterans", and one for my dad and stepmom so I can teach them how to use a computer. that leaves me three spare accounts. Then there are thousands of places you can get free e-mail accounts.

Who uses Outlook?

"The Matter" is that there is no point in learning Microsoft Outlooks "filter" unless you *want* suffering!

Instead of complaining about the broken tools and idiots running other broken tools, there is Revenge:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net:

Those who WANT viruses and other PC diseases.

I get some 200 pieces of junk every day at my old address, and I still have to look it over even after the filter calssifies it in case of false positives. That's why I'm moving to google. Their anti-junk scheme is very workable - it relies on multiple people reporting the same spam.

Businesses with IT departments for support i.e. everybody who also uses Office.

IT departments, support people and IT workers in need of coffee break - keep them wheels turning

What is *wrong* with you people anyway?

IT department? I am the IT department, the head designer, and the one who catches all the hell, no matter what happens and I don't use it.

You either do not geddit, or you are self-employed:

If there are no visible IT problems and threats, there will be no business-case to present to management for having an IT department in the first place. No crisii also means that management has no way of showing leadership under stress. No teambuilding and vendor-paid courses can be held in faraway tropical resorts. e.t.c.

You are blocking opportunities for people, so your job will go to Bombay, my friend ;-)

Complex systems - such as bureaucrasies(sp?) and economies - evolve complexity towards maximising the number of available "ecological nices" that the ressources available to the system will support. The maximum amounts of parasites, if you prefer.

So, when simplifying and improving efficiency, you are clearly going against the natural order and you will be expending much more energy than it would cost just to adopt to the local "ecology" and leach ressources off that.

That's why you see the high growth rates following paradigm shifts, emerging markets or new technology: The parasites are thrown off for a while and takes time to adapt to the new ecosystem. Then growth settles once again to just about the real inflation rate.

From anecdotal evidence, the adaptation time is about 10-15 years - so, juuust about now, *everybody*, businesses, politicians, lawyers, their dogs (and it's fleas too) will find ways to attach themselves to the Internet (and Open Source too) and leach all life out of it.

I.O.W: We have to invent something NEW.

Oh, BS. _I'm_ the IT department where I sit, and there aren't a whole hell of a lot of "opportunities" to "block". As a matter of fact, I suspect Jim Thompson is the IT department at his office.

So, Michael A, you seem to have something in common with Jim T. Does that make your stomach hurt? ;-P

Cheers! Rich

No, this does NOT stop the email, it just hides the fact that it was sent to you. The email still takes up bandwidth from the sender to you.

No doubt we all know about filters. Anyone subscribed to two mailing lists usually learns enough about using filters to have a filter put emails from each list into its own folder, and can do the same with spam from known sources. This does not stop the spam.

Excuse me- but NS announcements are hardly spam. You should consider yourself fortunate to receive them.