Re: OT: Why so many headhunters right now?

Didi wrote:

My ISP has implemented a useful spam filter, as shown by the
various X- header lines evaluating each e-mail.

I am POP3-ing all my mail with my DPS based system (I am able to
live without a wintel system here, although there is one since almost
2 years), so I could filter it or anything, but for the time being the
path of least resistance to me is just to ignore all that spam. I have
become so good at spotting non-spam messages among the massive bulk
of spam that I have never missed one; and if I do, I'll have it logged
(among all that spam, yes...). It costs me no more than 10 minutes
a day in total (I look at my main mailboxes about once an hour).

The point of having the ISP do it is that it never gets transmitted
to me, thus saving connect time, etc.


BTW, please do NOT strip attribution lines for material you quote.
Those are the initial lines of the form "Joe wrote:".

I practically never do. It is just that I quote the message I reply
to in its entity at the bottom (todays bandwidths allow that without
torturing anyone with a 2400 bpS modem), and the excerpts I
particularly want to quote are interleaved with the text I write.
This is a combination of top- and bottom posting which preserves
the advantages of either - at least I have chosen to post this way,
whenever I find it applicable (as in this case).

I find that practice abominable. Once you have created your reply,
as above, the remainder should simply be snipped. As you are doing
it it takes up storage space on multitudinous systems, including
mine, and wastes connect time. Besides the fouled order,
top-posting has the evil tendency to eliminate snipping. I often
simply skip any article beyond a certain line count, however it has
already consumed resources by then.

--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>


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