On 5/29/04 3:00 PM Bill McIntyre at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi Bill- You are right about the ISP thing. I was confused. I told my ISP to identify and mark SPAM messages. And I determined my own Mail Actions to put all SPAM into a SPAM folder which I would review. In reviewing I noticed my ISP did mark some legitimate messages as SPAM when indeed they were not. So I am not comfortable in having them block messages. I would rather have them just mark them and I will Delete what I need. So I took your advice (or was it Chris) and changed my Mail Actions to place all SPAM marked messages in the Deletion Folder where I can still review them. I have the Delete Folder progammed to Trash all messages that are 10 days old.
Thanks for all your advice Bill, and fellow emailers. doug >Then my ISP offered spam blocking with two choices. I could either have >them mark suspected spam by placing the word "spam" in the subject, or I >could have them just delete spam before sending it to me. I started by >having them put spam in the subject. At that point, all I needed was a >mail action to divert any post with spam in the subject to whatever >folder I selected. The ISP's screen replaced all the screens of my mail >actions. I chose to have it put in my deleted mail folder. After I >reviewed it to make sure it was truly spam, I deleted it again, and it >was gone from the folder. > >After a couple of weeks looking at the results of spam blocking, I found >that the ISP had never mis-identified a single good post as spam. At that >point I went back on the ISP's customer service website and selected the >choice that told them to hold the spam without my ever seeing it. I may >be naive, and I may eventually miss a valuable post, but that's where I >am at present. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
