Sacha wrote:
Today, I have received around 80 pieces of junk mail. My junk mail
filter catches most of it very well but I still have to check it, of
course. Most days, the number is something between 30 and 50. Is
this because Gardenbanter is reproducing posts from urg or is there
some other explanation? I'd be grateful to know of the experiences
and opinions of others on urg.

I meant to post this earlier but forgot, this is for anyone who uses POP3 to
get their emails, regardless of which mail programme you use.

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Is a good (free) programme, the pro version also works with hotmail, yahoo
etc, but the free version works with POP3 only.

Basically it is like looking directly at the server and looking at your
emails *before* you download them, it has many filters, based on keywords
which you stipulate (viagra, XXX, porn etc) and you can block entire ISP's,
which I do with many of the far eastern spammers, .jp (Japan) .kr (Korea)
etc, it has a freinds list which overrides any filters you have in place so
whatever they send will always get through.
Even if you get a hundred spam messages every day, you can delete them all
with one click and you haven't downloaded them to your inbox, you only see
the subject title and who they are from, so for example if you would
normally open outlook express and wait while all the crud comes in, you
simply open Mailwasher, it checks and shows you what's there, if there's 20
mails and only 1 of them is genuine you just click 'select all' at the top,
take the tick from your friend's mssage, then click 'process' wherupon your
chosen email programme (OE, Thunderbird etc) opens up and contains one email
and it's from someone you know! - everything else has been flushed and you
don't risk downloading any dodgy attachments etc.