It may shock you, but I do nothing out of the ordinary on my PC to hold back the spam tide. Nothing. Well, nothing outside of the normal features used by my e-mail program.
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\nYes, indeed, I still get spam, but hardly as much as I got years ago. I remember out of 13 messages in my inbox, maybe one was legitimate. That was even after my own efforts at filtering and deleting messages I knew were spam.<\/p>\n
Right now I just checked, and so far today I’ve received 21 e-mails and not one of them was spam. That’s pretty good!<\/p>\n
Every so often, spam reminds me that it’s out there: The occasional pharmaceutical ad comes in. (Why for the life of me anyone would be prescription drugs from someone who can’t even spell Viagra<\/em> is beyond me!) I still get porn spam, though my e-mail program proudly suppresses the pictures. There are also those mystery spam messages<\/em> that I just can’t quite make out: gibberish that looks like English that isn’t. (I’m not referring to the Russian spam I get, which is plentiful, but at least it’s Russian and not random words that look like English.)<\/p>\n What am I doing differently today? Nothing. I believe all the spam is being filtered by my ISP. I believe that the so-called “black hole” lists are working. The millions, upon millions of spam messages sent every day are just not making it to our inboxes like they once did.<\/p>\n No, I’m not creating Message Rules. I have only one Message Rule, in fact: There is this “family” web site that send me e-mail but requires that I log in to unsubscribe. I refuses to send me my long-forgotten password, so I believe it’s s scam. (Legitimate e-mail lists let you unsubscribe simply by supplying your e-mail address, not by logging in.) So I created a Message Rule that instantly deletes all those messages. But beyond that, I’m living a rather spam-free e-mail life these days.<\/p>\n How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may shock you, but I do nothing out of the ordinary on my PC to hold back the spam tide. Nothing. Well, nothing outside of the normal features used by my e-mail program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}