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To: Rambi who wrote (23063)	7/6/2006 2:43:50 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 543020

not even a penis enhancement offer I don't get spam anymore, either, and I use plain old Outlook. Can't recall the last time my eyes fell upon the word, "penis." But you've reset my counter to zero days... <g>

To: Rambi who wrote (23063)	7/6/2006 2:52:45 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543020

Eudora was my e-mail program, as well, dating from the days someone at the University of Illinois created it. Well before Qualcomm bought it. Kept and kept and kept with it. Starting on the Mac and then when I moved the family to Windows machines after 95 came out and my wife and I needed Windows for integration at work and for stock trading programs. But somewhere in there I had to move to Outlook which was always at the low edge of acceptable. Usual MS problems. As for spam, I worked my way through several spam protection programs in Outlook, each of which worked, sort of. The spammers were just always a bit more creative. My problem, he grins, wasn't the penis enhancement stuff but rather the "thar's gold in oil in Nigeria" e-mails. No telling how many different e-mail addresses were used for that one. But in recent years the e-mail server for the university account I use has a spam program, which catches some incredible number. And Verizon has some sort of program. Well, I may join you on gmail in the future. We'll see.

To: Rambi who wrote (23063)	7/6/2006 3:13:24 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 543020

It's possible to get spam on gmail. Not only that, I got it on a gmail account I set up and had never sent from, at all, ever. When I checked recently there were 37 spams in the junk folder (which I think holds about 7 days worth) and 2 which slipped through into the main folder. FWIW, the best webmail spam filter I've seen is on Yahoo. I've had an account there for about 8 years, used it before email spam was heard of so took no precautions, and it still gets only a few pieces a week at most slip from bulk mail into regular. Hotmail uses the alternative method of intermittently dumping my account and binning any email in it, but when I do check it's normally in double figures.