Tadjio wrote:
> Having just spoken to BullGuard support
> I can confirm that their latest update last week
> causes Outlook Plain Text Sent messages
> to be corrupted.
>
> My Sent message appears in Chinese and/or
> the received message appears as '??????????'
>
> The cause is the BullGuard Spam filter
> and I was advised to turn it off.
"The BullGuard product relies upon fellow users to identify spam; once
e-mail is marked as spam, all other Spamfilter users will no longer
receive that e-mail in their in-boxes."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9856660-57.html
So this is yet another community voting scheme to identify spam. This
is not new. This scheme doesn't work unless you are very slow in
polling your mail accounts for new messages in hoping that someone else
has already ranked the message as spam. What it really means is that
you WILL see spam and you get to vote on it so someone ELSE won't see
it. It also means that you are subjecting yourself to the lack of
expertise of boobs that vote a message is spam when, in fact, it is
simply unwanted e-mail. UCE and UBE have definitions regarding spam but
rare few users go by anyone's standards other than they got nuisanced
with an unwanted e-mail.
I trialed that product a long time ago. First thing I noticed was that
I would still spam because I monitor my account continuously (polling at
10-minute intervals but alerted as soon as one shows up). Voting on it
just means someone ELSE didn't get to see that spam. That didn't help
ME get rid of the spam. Yeah, if you only check your e-mails once or
twice per day and only after starting your e-mail client all to make
sure that others have had time to mark a suspect mail as spam then it
might have some value.
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