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[Avery]

I'm with you, Ron! That's why I like Eudora. It has it's own spam 
filter and I can check to see
what it put's into the "junk" folder!

Avery

At 01:45 PM 5/7/2006, you wrote:


>>Yes it can be changed--but it would require the recipient to wade thru all
>>the spam messages to do so--which kind of defeats the reason for blocking
>>the spam in the first place.
>
>As usual, nothing is quite that simple. Cox has recently activated a 
>spam filter, as a "free" but unsolicited service, and I am now 
>seeing replies to messages that never made it to my In box. I 
>haven't been able to access my account on line, because the system 
>doesn't acknowledge my username and/or password, so I can neither 
>turn it off, nor see any real messages that have been mistakenly 
>flagged as spam. So, I'm now privileged, for the forth time, to go 
>to their offices and stand in line with proof of identity to try to 
>learn what they have arbitrarily changed my username and password to 
>from the last time I had to do this. Thunderbird has a nice 
>trainable spam filter, and an easily accessed Junk folder where I 
>can periodically scan for mistakes quickly and easily without 
>standing in line and wasting an hour - again. That's the difference 
>between convenience and incompetence disguised as convenience.
>
>Always one more thing, like I don't already have enough to do trying 
>to manage my own stupidity...
>Ron N