krepta at juno.com wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:26:48 +1300 David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> > writes: > > IMO, there should be laws passed that all unsolicited promotional > > material have the string 'SPAM:' at the start of the subject field, > > to > > allow easy filtering. > > MSN does this, I'm sure of it, but only for messages that come from > places they have already identified as SPAMers. I agree that ALL SPAMers > should be required by law to put SPAM at the beginning of every subject > line, or get a special kind of MIME code that MUST be embeded so that > unwanted messages can be filtered out, not just by the Email Client a > user happens to be useing, but by the email SERVER run by the ISP.
Laws will never do it. It might help if email clients had a button to click "I know this source", so you could build a list of sources that you know, like your friends and family, or known mailing lists; something you reply to may be added automatically, too, so you see the answer to it, too. Mail from there would then be let in in the future, while everything else would go to the "unknown source" folder, which you read only once per week in case something went there accidentally. That should help to let you see spam much less often. I do get a certain amount of stuff that claims to be sent by myself (read: faked sender address), but that can be filtered via additional details in the routing list or so. The issue at the moment is that I have to click through maybe ten things and type some text by hand to set up another filter. That should become easier. A semi-intelligent guesser of which headers and mail body words look like spam-talk might also be nice. _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
