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I'll spare you the details for the sake of my own nerves, as the simple idea of what's been happening over the last months is enough to raise my blood temperature up to the boiling level.I'll get straight to the bottom line: if you emailed me these past months, and never received any answer, chances are your email never made it to me because it was (wrongly) caught in my anti-spam defenses.
I receive between 200 and 400 spam emails every day. It comes from almost everywhere, and it comes in English, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, etc. On a 'good' day, the number can easily jump to 800/1 000. Every frigging day.
And that's not including the waves of emails spreading worms and trojans.
As this is an ever-growing trend, I'm forced to regularly upgrade, double, or triple my spam barriers. Unfortunately, and for reasons I still need to investigate, the last upgrade was 'excessively efficient'.
The good thing is that I don't trust those email filters enough to let them delete incoming mail they tag as spam. With a bit more than 500 Gb of hard disk space, I can afford to have those countless trash mails sitting in a quarantine folder, just in case some legitimate ones get caught in the net too.
The bad news is that now, I have to go through thousands of Nigerian scams and other phony offers, to dig up the victims of my heavy artillery. And I mean tenths of thousands, actually.
The massacre is almost total. Not only first time mailers got wiped out, but emails from people with whom I already conversed in the past (which, presumably, should have been in the white list) where tagged as spam mail and 'disposed' accordingly by the filters.
I wish to offer you an apology, if you are in that case -- And I'm sorry to imagine that you probably think I was dismissive. This was not the case, unless of course your email ranked among the death threats and other vain abuses.
Even though I'll be slowly making my way through the pile of junk mail in order to eventually return you a belated answer, I beg you to forward me again any email on any subject, be it serious or casual, on which you requested my attention -- should you believe that it had been caught in the spam blocks. For what I've seen so far, it could even be as old as 5 months. (I bet the title is beginning to make sense now, does it?)
I lowered the defenses, I'll be watching the quarantine's content more closely than ever, and all I ask for Christmas is the MS 361 C and 5 minutes with one of those low life spam clowns.
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