Hello, On 08/08/2002 04:45 PM, Jay Garcia wrote: >>>though I am living in Hong Kong, Asia, i want to filter those >>>big5/GB-code spam as well via Mozilla's rules. The biggest spam wave >>>came from, sadly, China - the new owner of Hong Kong. >>> >>> >>> >>>>I noticed that the character set is BIG5. I noticed that in the subject >>>>and in the body parts. The problem is that I can't see a way in Mozilla >>>>mail filters to specify such criteria. Anybody has any ideas? >>> >>Yes, many spammers are also moving to China where they are away from the >>European and North American laws/ >> >>However, I am afraid that Mozilla filtering power is very week. >> >>I learned that Netscape 4 had Javascript based filtering support. I >>wonder if Mozilla has or will have that so we can filter Big5 messages. > > If you can, at the server level, block out the entire Class "C" 211 > domain and you'll eliminate most of the Asia Pacific Network that is now > responsible for over 50% of all spam ... I did just that and all of my > 100+ email customers are rejoicing.
That does not sound like filtering but rather like descrimination. Personally I am not interesting in droping messages before I have the chance to examining them. Chances are that you will be dropping solicited messages that may be eventually business or other opportunities by eventually excluding innocent people. I prefer client side filtering to be safe, so I can verify that messages are really SPAM before I discard them. Another point, is that my public address is handled by a e-mail forwarding service run by ACM that I obviously do not control. Recently they have added anti-spam filters that are making me loose a lot of personal e-mail. I had to request to drop all filters for my address because that does not suite me. I also seen many people in the same situation complaining of the same. Conclusion, I do not trust many spam filtering systems because it is not feasible to make them guess right what is spam. I prefer to receive all spam in my mailbox and sort them with client side filters. Unfortunately Mozilla is not yet very capable for this purpose. I wonder if are there any real efforts in this direction. Manuel Lemos
