On 5/29/04 9:28 AM Bill McIntyre at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi Bill- Sorry, but I seem to be confused about all this. It is true that my ISP offers SPAM blocking and I have availed myself of this feature. I have activated AppleScripts in the Mail Action feature regarding certain key words, addresses, subjects etc. and the ISP is now marking them with the prefix "SPAM" and they are filed into a SPAM folder on my Emailer. But my problem that I wrote about was regarding how many variations there seems to be for getting by these AppleScripts. I had questioned to this List if I need to keep adding more and more to my spamblocker Mail Actions and possibly slowing down my emailer. The suggestion came back that SpamSeive would eliminate this problem, or so that is how I interpreted the message. But doesn't SpamSeive also have to be given Mail Actions to take, like Emailer does?
>From what you say I'm faced with adding more and more Mail Actions and cannot avoid it. regards, doug >Doug McAdam wrote: > >>OK Karl, you have convinced me. However there are some other spam >>blockers being touted on this Emailer List and I'm wondering what the >>consensus is for the best one. Also can someone give me web sites to >>check them out, prices, etc.? Also I need to know what OS they will work >>on. > >Doug, > >Forgive me if I'm somehow missing the important point, but back on the >27th, you said, referring to my post about my ISP's Spam Blocker: > >>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. > >So if your ISP will block the Spam before it ever gets to you, why do you >need a spam blocker installed on your computer? My ISP blocks the spam >before it ever gets to me. It doesn't matter what OS I use, or whether I >use a PC or a Mac. My impression is that the spam blocking programs that >you are asking about are only needed by those not fortunate enough to use >an ISP that will cut off the spam before it ever gets to them. Yes, a >very few do slip through most days, but they are so few that they don't >require any special handling. > > >Bill McIntyre >San Clemente, CA > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
