OT: E-ChannelNews - Do We Really Need This?

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> 
> I don't think it says anything about being marked "unsolicited".
> (Besides, in this case they would claim that it's not "unsolicited"
> because John didn't opt-out when they told him they were going to
> start spamming him.)  I believe the law says you need to mark some

Except that first one telling him so -is- unsolicited.  *blam*  Got 'em.

> Mine is definitely on the rise.  I get about 2000-3000 per week thrown
> into my "held mail" folder for suspected spam.  There are almost zero
> false-positives.  (There are far more false negatives -- sometimes a
> few dozen in a day, though usually less than ten.)

Ouch!  Mega-glad Kel and I have solutions in place for this.  Legitimate
email eats up enough gaming time as it is!  :)

> A funny thing about some of the spam is that I get PayPal phishes to
> many of my e-mail addresses, but never to my PayPal address.

Same thing happens to me.  Every PayPal and eBay phish I've gotten goes to
my USENET email addresss at my second domain name.  Actually, I don't think
I've ever seen an exception.  If I add one rule to procmail with a match
against from paypal and to that address I use on USENET, I could knock
those out entirely.  Thanks for the idea.

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