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Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing

Posted by timothy on from the bring-back-the-stockade-please dept.

dbolger writes: "ZDNet has this brief, but interesting article about how the amount of spam we recieve in our inboxes has increased 650% since this time last year. Nice to know that that anti-spam legislation passed a while back is having an effect (not)." For PINE users, just remember the magic spell: "m s r f a."

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  1. right.... by dr_labrat · · Score: 3, Redundant

    How does this compare against the overall growth of the internet, though?

    The growth in the number of people connecting to the net should be much higher....

    --
    The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
  2. pine by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i dont use pine.
    what is this cryptic m s r f a ?

    or is it some obvious joke i have missed?

    1. Re:pine by Phork · · Score: 2, Redundant

      its the command to add a filter:

      (M) ain menu
      (S) etup
      (R) ules
      (F) ilters
      (A) dd

      --
      -- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
  3. Re:msrfa? by nekkid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Doesn't work in pine4.05, but it does in 4.40. Dunno when it started working.

    (M) ain menu
    (S) etup
    (R) ules
    (F) ilters
    (A) dd

    And then you fill out a filter pattern.