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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....

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    The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
  2. 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

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    -- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.