re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 10:52 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3934 messages posted) |I think this is a virus | Ian Probably--but it's not likely it's on YOUR box. What has probably happened is that someone has hijacked the Address Book of someone else who has you listed. As I said, **your email address has gotten out into the wild**. You can install a Bayesian filter on your box as Martin suggested, but as I have already said, **You shouldn't even be aware of 99.9% of this junk**. YOUR MAIL PROVIDER[1] should be filtering for spam. If the boss there had any business acumen, he would make sure it was done. The last figures I saw on email traffic said that 80% of it was spam. If your guy had half a lick of sense, he could cut down his bandwidth costs by not re-transmitting the garbage. (It makes for happier customers too.) The way I see it: Subsidize the best businesses and the others are forced to find work for which they are better suited. Giving your money to inept people is a sign of poor decision-making skills IMO. YMMV. [1] For most folks, this is their ISP. Written in response to: re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (Ian: Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 9:58 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (Ian: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 3:57 pm) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 5:32 pm) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (Ian: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 9:58 am) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (MartinM: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 10:16 am) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 10:52 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum