On 5/27/04 9:05 AM Bill McIntyre at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. >Doug McAdam wrote: > >>My ISP offers the same service and choice of Deleting SPAM before I read >>them or inserting the word SPAM in the Subject line and I have programmed >>Emailer Mail Actions to file them in my SPAM folder for later editing and >>deletion. The problem is there are so many new and innovating types of >>spammer messages now such as changing one letter in the word Viagra that >>it is difficult to keep on making up new Mail Actions. For example I >>have emails with the word Via-gra, Vi$gra etc. I have not saved and >>compared From addresses yet to see if one can set up a Mail action to >>block certain addresses. And of course there can be so many Mail Actions >>that it is bound to slow down incoming email isn't it? > >I'm not sure I'm following you. I agree on the difficulty of creating >mail actions for every possible variation of spelling for viagra and >other key words, but that is what is so neat about the spam blocker at my >ISP- it replaces the mail actions. I'm now getting from 5 to 10 spams per >day that have managed to get past the spam blocker, and these are easily >handled manually. I've disabled all my mail actions. > >Bill > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What I'm saying Bill is that each day I would have to add more actions to my Mail Actions because each day I receive new emails with innovative ways to spell key words such as viagra, vicodin, etc. With all the new, creative ways to sendout spam messages it will mean eventually having hundreds of spam blocker type scripts.
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