[Mpls] emails to/from govt officials

[Greg Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Sen.Linda Higgins wrote:

> Does this mean I should have kept the 25 "don't you want a
> larger penis?" and Viagra/Ciallis ads I deleted this morning?

Don't you have a spam filter on your state e-mail server?  They're 
getting pretty good.

I have one I use through VISI.com - a Minneapolis-based ISP, and it 
works quite well.  These days everyone knows putting your "real" e-mail 
address out on the internet is a virtual invitation to receive spam - 
but that wasn't so clear before, say, 1999.  When I registered my 
domain for my law practice in 1996, I didn't know any better.  As a 
result my main work e-mail address gets hammered by spam, maybe 150-250 
a day.    VISI's spam filter "postini" cuts that down to a trickle, 
maybe 3-5 a day, with a false positive rate of less than 1 in 10,000.

Government officials shouldn't be archiving spam -- but they ought to 
be archiving everything else.  Hence my point -- spam filters.

Greg


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Greg Abbott
Linden Hills
13th ward