Re: Buffer cache statistics (ratios) and CBO SQL optimization?

Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<vla500ld8e6lqsuceh1026fvtanm8tqj0q_at_4ax.com>...
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> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:54:22 +1100, "Noons"
> <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote:
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> >"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3FFD5472.4BF_at_yahoo.com...
> >
> >> but in reality...
> >> I use my real email address because I just like getting those spams
> >> about a smaller mortgage, a better credit card or a bigger dong
> >
> >You don't have to. You need a fake e-mail so
> >all the dong-stuff ends up there.
>
> This is still a mystery to me. I post with a bogus e-mail and still
> get the junk. I have 3 email addresses -- one with my ISP, one with
> my employer, and one on my client's system. The one on my client's
> system gets more junk than the other two combined. It has been
> several years since I last knowingly exposed that address to the
> usenet and/or the web, and yet the spam continues to grow. I seem to
> get much more than my coworkers, so I don't think it was from an
> internal leak.

Several of the recent viruses seem to have harvesting as a purpose. So if anyone you've ever sent email to got one... or if your client's ISP left a door open... or a sniffer harvester got on anywhere in between you and anybody else.. or any of many other possibilities...

It is quite mysterious, I'm amazed at which of my addresses get it and which don't. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the majority of traffic on the net is now spam going nowhere.

> >
> >That doesn't mean you can't sign as Connor and tell us
> >your real name. Which is not the case for you-know-who.

jg

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