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>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>eventually became entirely overrun with spam

It was bad, but it's much better of late: spam is diverted to a junk folder 
99%+.

>Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder.

But Yahoo is VERY slow. Even with trouble this last
week at Hotmail it's still usually faster than Yahoo.

BW


>From: Max Pierson <maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Off Topic - SPAM
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:21:59 -0800 (PST)
>
>Jody
>
>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>eventually became entirely overrun with spam so I use
>it now for my throwaway email address and I never
>check it. Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder. Makes
>it easy to select which ones not to open, you can just
>read the headings and ignore most of them. After
>taking these steps there doesn't seem to be much
>reason to fight the "SPAM War", there are a lot of
>terminally cranky people around to do that.
>
>Max
>
>"The race may not always go to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but 
>it is the way to bet"
>