I generally get a couple hundred emails a day, 90% of it spam. The last few days though, I have gotten about 30-50 emails. I found this quite disconcerting and wondered what had happened. Had all the scum who send out that crap suddenly decided I was a dead end?
Then I remembered an email I received from my ISP last week, but didn't read. Going back to check it I found out that they were implementing a new, more advanced spam filter - and turning it on.
Sure enough, all that missing mail is on the server in a spam folder - which I still have to go through because, like spam filters since the dawn of time, their filter is imperfect and caught stuff I actually want. I can turn it off and continue to parse it in my inbox, or leave it on and parse it through the web interface. Grrrr!
Posted by Vox at May 1, 2006 05:33 PM | TrackBack | personal