the deltaTraffic weblog

1) forward your mail to your gmail account.
2) send mail from thunderbird or your favourite mail client, as usual.
3) Train the gmail spam filter by reporting as spam
4) receive mail via the gmail interface, and send mail via gmail if its ok for you to send that way (remember if you send from gmail it will appears as gmail)
5) filter all legit mail and on filter, send to another mail address to open with thunderbird.
6) when you receive the mail in that client or other, make sure your sending address is the same as the address that is forwarding to gmail.

you can log in to gmail once every day to check its doing its job ok

If you get spam like me, you’ll be thinking – why do I have to get this stuff?

Well, theres good in noticing theres a problem and the problem is that your network position means that you are on the intersection betwen their network and yours. You cant do much else but filter it. Thing is, its in the nature of the beast that there will be networks that you had no realisation or need or desire to be on. Make sure you make a strong enough network by underlining your subject domain by good offline and online connections. Eventually the offline will merge into the online network.

http://www.stoptextbully.com/

“interesting” phonomenon – happy slapping – where a gang of mobile phone users attack, yes, attack some helpless victim and then proceed to take photos and presumably text the picture to there mates who werent there to join in. So a good site to help people realise this isnt on. The nearest Ive seen is the stoptextbully, which is about people sending threatening messages. Something tells me that happy slappers and bullies in general wont even be reading this site. But then again it is aimed at both raising public awareness and helping the victims. On one note, I think for the sake of, as a phrase I make up, marketfocussedness, for the want of a better word, I think they could easily have fitted in the happy slapping fad. But then again, as the site was set up by one such victim,
I cant grumble. Perhaps victim is the wrong word here, but you know what I mean.

content: 7/10 – style: 8/10 – “marketfocussedness”: 9/10

online spell checker – very useful. Thanks, Mark!