On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:20:13 -0400, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
> I've just uploaded Dfilter v3.0 on my Interesting DOS programs page
> at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave.
> Dfilter is a an email filtering program. It searches your messages
> for a specified text string and moves any found messages to a
> specified subdirectory (under the mail directory).
<snip>
> Comments, suggestions are welcome.
My comments:
This is probably a good way to deal with spam. I frequently receive
over a period of time dozens of spam messages from various sources,
all dupicates, and all having the same subject header. Maybe this
D-Filter could be set up so as to automagically search for a certain
string in the subject header and move the entire message to a folder
named spam. I have noticed also that the text of most spam messages
tends to share in common certain phrases that are not normally found
in a legitimate email. So far my spam problem has not been so severe
as to necessitate the installation of a filtering program. If the
problem should get a lot worse then I will want to look into D-Filter
as a candidate for helping to provide a solution. Thanks for informing
us about your program.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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