Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> > Jim Holsenback<nom### [at] nomailcom>  wrote:
> >> ... but has anyone else noticed a dramatic down-turn in the amount of
> >> spam the last couple of days?
> >
> >    Something like 5 years ago I would receive about 100 spam emails per day.
> > For the last 2 or 3 years I only receive at most 10. I don't know what has
> > changed.
> >

> Your ISP has probably implemented filtering on their mail relays.  Most 
> used to say "not my problem".  Up until the point where they realized 
> that 95% of the e-mails going through their servers were spam, and 
> decided that investing in a filtering solution was actually a good idea.

  My "ISP" is google mail, which puts spam in its own folder.

  OTOH it might be that gmail simply discards all spam that it knows for
sure is spam.

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                                                          - Warp

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