First, I am running Outlook Express for my e-mail, This may be the only e-mail program so affected, I don't know, but every 3 or 4 days, someone sends me an e-mail that stops the system, and won't let any following e-mails through. The first couple of times, I called up my server, and they told me that it was either a corrupted e-mail or one that was too long, and they removed it. Presto, the other messages, which had been held up at the server, came through. It's like clearing a blockage in your plumbing.

Then, I started to think. Next time it happened, I closed Outlook Express and then I disabled Norton Antispam and brought up Outlook Express again, and everything, including spam of course, came through. Then, I enabled Norton Antispam again, and deleted the spam by hand.
Note: save your breath! Enabling Norton Antispam during transmission of a block of e-mails doesn't work. The entire block still comes through, including spam.

It was Norton that was stopping the corrupted e-mail and stopping the system!

It IS a bummer to have to delete 100 or more spam e-mails, but you can highlight a group of them and delete, just be careful not to delete the ones you want to keep, that would normally get through.

As long as your e-mail is blocked, the system (at least mine) will keep sending you duplicates of the messages in front of the blockage every few minutes.

It is still the best system around for killing spam, but this is an irritating glitch. Maybe they'll fix it, in time.

Maybe the best answer is to begin executing spammers and the idiots who are making viruses and worms, etc., and give us back our internet.

I run Norton's firewall and anti-virus, as well as an ad-blocker. I wish it wasn't necessary, but it is. Between them they catch several viruses a week attempting to break in, and almost all spam, so obviously it's a necessary precaution.

P.S. I have finally had to deep-six Norton's Antispam, 2004. The reason? The corrupted messages, if that's what was causing the disruption, were happening daily. Each day, I had to disable Norton's Antispam in order to get my e-mail, and the flood gates opened, letting all the spam, through. So, what's the use? My server has a program which stops spam before it gets to me, and it's free. Some still gets through, but not much. So I have uninstalled Norton's program.

Norton really needs to fix this glitch.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

As everyone knows, spam is choking the internet. I was getting about 300 spam messages a day which I had to manually delete. Then I got the "I Hate Spam" program, which helped, but a lot still sneaked by, so I downloaded Spamkiller 4, which was nominally better--but still I was not able to permanently block the obvious spam that did get through with a couple of keystrokes.

With Norton's, I can.

I.m happy with this program. It may help to know that I am running Outlook Express, with Windows ME. Also, I have a local internet service provider as host for my website as well as Comcast cable, with requires different incoming and outgoing mail settings. My machine is a Gateway 1.8 MHz.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre