-> WC>They sure are :-(
-> WC>I delete unknowns by logging onto the mail server
-> WC>and clearing them unread and that has cut down on my
-> WC>spam considerably.

-> WC>I'm thinking the fact it's gone unread doesn't verify
-> WC>your e-mail address as active and valid with a reurn receipt.

-> Interesting thought. 
   
A flaw in my thinking was pointed out in that they could check if the
address bounced and thus keep their lists up to date.

Still and all my method has cut my spam by 75 percent.

-> I cannot do that but just a few rules has
-> eliminated a lot of my SPAM. Although for some reason I have never been
-> buried in SPAM like some "say" they have been. Most of what I get is
-> fro "Male Performance Enhancement" and cut rate drugs. 

I _was_ getting a lot of those, breast enlargement too 
Than too internet e-mail offers for narcotics, packages
waiting for your authorization to ship
and mortgage offers for both this and my previous residence.

Perhaps I should take them up on the mortgage offers as I rent 
Little extra spending money for a plasma HDTV 9:16 and bleeding
edge computer system 

-> I find some
-> of theri tricks to get arround message rules very clever.          

I took a test where frauds were simulated based upon actual 
instances and failed 15 percent of the time to detect the fraudulent
e-mails.

-> Then of Course I don't give out my "E" mail adress to every
"Tom, Dick,
-> and Harry".

Unfortunately I made that error early on.
Still no big probelms though.
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