Re: rules not working consistently

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Well, two point:

First, I received over 2,000 messages for that drug on Wednesday. That was the trigger date for the confictor (?) virus. It was also, independently, April fools day.

But, as to your point: I've never ordered that or any similar drugs on the internet. And, generally, I have never opened E-Mails offering such drugs, I just delete them (in most cases, they go automatically into my junk mail). But, ok, sometimes you don't know that it is a "drug offer" until after you open it.

SO WHAT? Why should that matter, whether you open it or not? I never click on anything within the message, and I don't allow "receipts" to be sent that I have opened or deleted that or any other message. And I have an active outgoing firewall.

I get a few (perhaps a dozen) such messages every day, but got 2,000 on Wednesday. I believe that there is nothing exceptional about me, but I have been on the internet and EXTREMELY active for more than a decade with the same E-Mail address. I believe that everyone with my level of activity gets such messages, and in fact that most people with a similar history would get far more. However, one thing I have done is that I have turned off ***ALL*** filtering of messages by my ISP (because I discovered that they were filtering out a small number of important, legitimate messages by accident). So I actually see and receive all of those messages, while I suspect that most people don't ever receive them and consequently never see them (and don't know that they are not seeing them) because most ISPs have their own filtering software before such messages would ever get to you. In my case, my ISP (time-warner) does this automatically, they don't notify you that they are doing it, you have to "opt out", and most users don't even know that the ISP is "pre-filtering" their E-Mail for both virus' and spam. I didn't know it for years, until I missed critical E-Mails from a credit card company that the ISP mistakenly filtered as "spam".


Peter Foldes wrote:
Maybe you did not order it but for sure you opened it

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