John,
If you are just now getting to the point of frustration with this tripe,
consider yourself extremely lucky. I reached that stage a good 2 years
ago!
Perhaps somebody will in time be able to track down these culprits and
finally bring this sort of cyber crime to a halt!
Regards,
Joe
jonmac wrote:
>
> O great computer people of these lists!
>
> I recount an entirely true story which must perforce be
> brief in the telling. Many years ago when I worked in
> Europe, a colleague who was a Yorkshireman and a very good
> friend, was greatly troubled by local drivers who drove
> close behind him at night with headlights on main beam. He
> tried many different techniques to stop this occuring - to
> no avail, until ...
> Being a highly practical person with his hands, owning and
> driving a battered Land Rover and living in a rented farm
> property, he found the ultimate solution. He obtained and
> mounted two abandoned acetylene cylinders on the Landie's
> roof and by undertaking certain modifications to the
> cylinders, was able to fill them with very pungent and 5
> star quality pig slurry. Two nozzles, controlled from the
> steering wheel pointed backwards from the roof and the full
> cyls were pressurised from the airline at his gas station.
> The system worked superbly until some months later he
> inadvertantly doused an unmarked police car that just
> happened to have an open front window.
> I now find myself in my friend's situation because I am
> being DELUGED with spam telling me how I can make a fortune
> while asleep, chain letters, credit assurances and a raft of
> other bilge with tollfree phone numbers that won't accept
> transatlantic calls from me. My ISP say they can't filter
> out any more on my behalf and agrees its own servers are
> getting jammed with this garbage. I've now reached the stage
> that these jerk operations need a blast of cyberised pigs**t
> themselves but I can't e-mail a reply to them. The message
> bounces straight back as undeliverable. Thus, while it seems
> they are at liberty to invade my privacy with their banal
> messages, I can't respond. Pressing delete just isn't
> enough - dammit I have to pay to receive this tripe whenever
> I download and how do you structure I.E.4 to filter out
> messages whose origins and senders you don't know in
> advance?
>
> Jonmac - wishing he was back in a Land Rover on the Parisian
> Peripherique.
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"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
-- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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