problem Spam at the office

[LunarMist]

I am so sick of spam at work. uke-l: Most of the spam is devised to sell IT services, though a few are for drugs or male sexual "improvements." The spammers know my name. Why do they think I work in the computer world? :bstd:

 

[LunarMist]

On a 1600-pixel-wide monitor it looks like the one icon is puking downwards on the other. :mrgrn: It was an accident, really.

 

[ddrueding]

On a 1600-pixel-wide monitor it looks like the one icon is puking downwards on the other. :mrgrn: It was an accident, really.

You must run a very small font size. I'm 1920 wide and they have a whole line of text between them.

 

[LunarMist]

Like this.

 

[Sol]

You must run a very small font size. I'm 1920 wide and they have a whole line of text between them.

Maybe it's you who has a large font size... I'm at 1440 wide with everything at Ubuntu default and I get the little guy puking on the the last "the" (Or actually the word computer as I type this...) so 1600 sounds about right for a direct hit. On the other hand maybe you're just reading more in to Lunar's post than I am...

But back on the original topic I resent the implication that people who work in the computer world need/want drugs or male sexual "improvements."

 

[ddrueding]

But back on the original topic I resent the implication that people who work in the computer world need/want drugs or male sexual "improvements."

Nice....

 

[LunarMist]

But back on the original topic I resent the implication that people who work in the computer world need/want drugs or male sexual "improvements."

The women sure don't. :flower:

 

[CougTek]

I've always pictured Mooner as a beyond mature man, not a beyond mature woman.

 

[LunarMist]

I am a middle aged man - no secrets there.

The point is that women who work in IT (or not) don't need/want drugs or male sexual "improvements" either, but they often receive the same spam.

 

[LunarMist]

You must run a very small font size. I'm 1920 wide and they have a whole line of text between them.

I am using the Windows default font sizes. Are you using 120% by any chance?

 

[ddrueding]

120%, plus larger fonts in Firefox.

 

[Mercutio]

Why does your office not have effective antispam, Lunar?

 

[LunarMist]

How effective is it supposed to be? I know they can't stop the sales pitches.

 

[MaxBurn]

I get a spam mail at the office maybe twice a year using google postini, I am very impressed. I don't know that I have ever gotten a false positive from them either.

http://www.google.com/postini/index.html

My personal account doesn't have any protection but I don't get much spam in it either because it has a strange ending with fastmail.us. I think most of the bots don't even recognize that is an email.

 

[ddrueding]

Google's services are the best I've seen for anti-spam. I don't get any, ever, anymore.

 

[LunarMist]

Why does your office not have effective antispam, Lunar?

That is not the main IT challenge at work. However, I am not allowed to mention anything about corporate in public.

 

[ddrueding]

The very fact that there is a policy about not talking about corporate (or that there is a 'corporate') means that you work for a large, slow-moving company. It also means that they should be able to handle something in addition to their "main challenge" without becoming overwhelmed.

 

[LunarMist]

I wish I could comment. ale: