Nick
You could try talking to Earthlink.net (See Support > Get Live Help
now). May be you saw this page:
http://support.earthlink.net/articles/email/e-mail-abuse.php##1
that might be helpful
Robert C
On 3/6/14 12:17 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Barry, and others,
Thanks, everybody, for taking my question seriously. I will investigate
Spamseive. I get my email via a gmail account, a clark university account, and
an earthlink account. Everything forwards to the earthlink account.
Earthlink has its spam blocker which has served me pretty well up until the
last few weeks, although I cannot get it to understand that If I send somebody
a message, I would like to be able to receive the response. Clark University
has its own spam system, although it may be the case that messages to me bounce
right off the server without ever passing through it. Outlook is set to NOT
open any images in a messages unless I tell it to. In general, if I suspect
that something is spam, I move it directly to my McAFee spam folder without
opening it, although I don't know what, if anything, follows from that. I
assume that moving the message from one folder to another within Outlook does
not provide any information to the spammer.
My very best wishes to you all,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:25 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam
Are you using a Bayesian spam detector? I use one on the Mac called SpamSieve,
and I used to use one on Windows called SpamBayes -- there was an Outlook
plugin for it.
You need to train it by correcting its mistakes. Most of them will train
themselves (mostly) by having you point them to a folder of good messages and a
folder of spam. It looks like you will be able to do that.
The accuracy of my SpamSieve setup is very good; mine is at about 99%.
—Barry
On 6 Mar 2014, at 10:13, Nick Thompson wrote:
To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood,
So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been
assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering
if there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do
is click on the link that says, "Please don't send me any more
messages like this."
But, of course, I have been told to NEVER click on any link in a
message I suspect for any reason. So, then I look the organization up
on the web, thinking that if the have a website that Earthlink's
WebAdvisor doesn't hate, maybe I am safe to click the opt out link,
but that takes a time, and, of course, the web message could always be
a spoof. So, then I am back to doing nothing.
Anybody got better than nothing as a strategy?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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