Tech: peculiar email

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 12:00 PM

Q, I thought that last line should have had the "ill" rhyme:

Covered in mustard and served up hot with gray swill.

Just a thought.

Bill D: "The spammers are like ants, roaches, mice and other vermin...it's hard to devise a system to totally keep them out."

In the natural world, we don't have mice, roaches, crickets, or other vermin in our house (though they are in the environment) because we have tarantulas in the yard that hunt and dine on the others. Maybe there will be a comparable computer development to match this marvelous arachnid.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 02:19 PM

Might be a case of the cure being worse than the disease though, SRS.

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 03:05 PM

Digression warning!
The tarantula is one of Nature's great creations. Except occasionally in Limestone, County, Texas. when the population explodes and they cover the land. I remember driving on a road in Limestone County back in the 1950s and those killed crossing the road made slippery patches.
Like cats, they may have more than one life. We had a pet tarantula in one of our bio labs (in Texas). Tap a pencil on the lab bench and it would come for a treat of beef or a disabled insect. One student hated having it around and dropped in in a beaker of alcohol. We fished it out and left it on the bench. Next day it was crawling around, apparently recovered. Several days later it disappeared and was never found. Coincidentally, the student who had dunked it withdrew from the course.

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 03:16 PM

I was just thinking about the advisability of having a cyber version of the Acanthopelma hanging around the computer memory.

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 10:33 PM

I have found tarantulas to be great predators but rather fragile it they are bounced around much. I was saddened last summer when trying to rescue one from the road--I bumped it along out of the street, but I'm no Tiger Woods when putting with sticks and spiders--it hit the curb, not the lawn, and slowly died where it landed.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 04 - 10:59 AM

for good stuff from Arachnoids, go here

site by Paul Lutus, creator of software called "careware", sworn enemy of Micro$oft, and man of MANY opinions, such as, "A person who won't think has no advantage over one who can't think".

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 06:43 PM

I've used Arachnophilia for years, Bill D. A great program by what sounds like a very nice fellow.

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 08:21 PM

a very bright and well intentioned fellow who has MANY good ideas...just ask him! (I had a complex run-in with him about installing the java version...he couln't comprehend that his instructions didn't explain everything...*grin*...it is still a great program, and his wisdom is pretty special.)

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 07:15 AM

I've run all the virus checkers for the main ones and then some, but still getting the emails.... I don't open them I'm jus deleting them...

Is there anything else I can do?

Regards

Ella

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 09:44 AM

delete, delete, delete--there is no way to make them go away. You're no longer under the radar and once they start they keep coming. Setting up a spam filter in your existing email might help at least shunt them off to the side where you can delete them. Or look into a service that has a filter (like Earthlink) or find a mail program that comes with it's own spam filter (Eudora has one, and if you get a Yahoo mail account you can filter and block virus and worm packets at the same time).

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 01:28 PM

Or view them with an on-line facility which prevents the initial download to your system.
Such as "web2mail" (Url 168.144.1.11) this allows you to see the headers/titles of the items in your mailbox, and delete anything you do not wish to download without importing it to Outlook Express first.
The current "NETSKY" virus appears to be originating messages (usaully starting with subject line "Re:....") of between 21k & 31k.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Tech: peculiar email
From: Folkiedave
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 03:51 PM

I recommend everyone to use Mailwasher http://www.mailwasher.net/ which is free and is a very easy programme to set up which allows you to look at everything before it is downloaded. I always look at the column with attachments and anything I don't recognise I delete.

Regards,

Dave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk