Is USA on vacation?

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I don't think there's been any let up see:
http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek

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Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
Pentium4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1gb DDR.
"John.Doe" <John.Doe@Nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:73FAC826.E2875F1G@Nowhere.com...
>I wonder if USA is on vacation. I do not appear to have received my quota
>of spam messages in the last 48 hours. Have all spammers gone on strike?
>
> --
> I use non Microsoft products where ever possible which requires no
> activation. I buy WordPerfect Office for less than $50 from Amazon:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5nscw
>
> I use Netscape 7.2 as my defalt browser which has everything I need for
> my work.
>
> I believe in good Financial Management!! I do not beieve in enriching
> rich jerks!
>
>

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That's because you don't know how to set your time zone. You're
posting in the future. Goodbye, I'm deleting this message.
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"John.Doe" <John.Doe@Nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:73FAC826.E2875F1G@Nowhere.com...
>I wonder if USA is on vacation. I do not appear to have received my
>quota of spam messages in the last 48 hours. Have all spammers gone
>on strike?
>
> --
> I use non Microsoft products where ever possible which requires no
> activation. I buy WordPerfect Office for less than $50 from Amazon:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5nscw
>
> I use Netscape 7.2 as my defalt browser which has everything I need
> for
> my work.
>
> I believe in good Financial Management!! I do not beieve in
> enriching
> rich jerks!
>
>

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My OS is Microsoft Windows XP, my browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer,
and my office software is Microsoft Office XP. I use all of these packages
for the same reasons I used VHS instead of Beta and PCs instead of Macs. Not
necessarily because they are any better, but they are much more widely
distributed and reach a far wider audience. As you say, Word Perfect can be
purchased for as low as $50, but so can Microsoft Word. On the other hand,
Microsoft Office is a suite of programs including Microsoft Word, Microsoft
Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Powerpoint. It can
be purchased for less than $200 (I have seen it listed for $60 at some
websites, but question the price), and Word Perfect Office 12 is in
approximately the same price range.

I get very little spam. Some precautions I take for "safe hex" are as
follows:

My email address for all newsgroup posts is a fake one.

My antivirus and antispyware software (AVG from Grisoft and AdAware from
Lavasoft) are keep updated and are run several times a week. Both of these
are free downloads.

Also my system experiences no annoying popups because I use a popup stopper
(from Panicware, also free). It can easily be disabled when I want to see a
legitimate popup.