Which is worse: the spam, or the anti-spam?

Posted by Gary
August 17, 2005

Thank god I’m back on broadband: at about 20 past eleven last night, I received 464 spam emails - or rather, emails from anti-spam systems telling me “my” message had not been delivered. These things are worse than the bloody spammers.

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Comment by Squander Two on August 17, 2005 @ 4:55 pm

The anti-spam’s worse. At least the spam is (very) occasionally amusing.

Comment by Gary on August 19, 2005 @ 7:51 am

The volume of it’s horrific, though. Easily 90-plus percent of all my email.

Comment by Squander Two on August 22, 2005 @ 4:49 pm

Is that all?

Comment by Gary on August 22, 2005 @ 5:22 pm

That’s 90-plus percent *after* my ISP has tried to filter the worst of it. I can’t set spam filters too high because if I do, they decide not to let any of my work email through either.

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