On Mon, Oct 11, 20048:02 AM, the following words from Tom Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...
>A-NO-NE Music sez: > >>The problem with this is that I often purchase from MarketPlace at >>Amazon. This means you never know who is sending you the confirmation. > >I'm sure it's been mentioned here but I think it's worth repeating. I >have a "confirmation" email account which I don't run through SpamSieve. >When it starts getting spam, I delete it and create a new one. Ok. A confirmation email address makes sense if the only business you do with that vendor is make purchases and the only email necessary is for confirmation. But what if your dealings with the vendor are multi- faceted? For instance, with Apple I would like to have a couple of newsletters/calendar reminders, etc., go to one email address, confirmation for Apple Store and iTunes Music Store purchases go to another address, .Mac information to go to another address, etc., but most vendors don't have the option to provide them with more than one email address depending on the content they intend to send. I deal with these variations, of which I have many, using filters. Like A-NO-NE, I don't have an unchanging list of vendors I deal with to maintain one static filter or even to completely trust the filters I do have. I monitor what comes in very carefully so I can (hopefully) take action immediately. I used to be more concerned about filtering details, but I have so many filters that anything else MUST be spam. Or at least, I want it acted upon as if it were spam since it didn't meet the criteria of known senders. I don't mind that I must scan the trash for good messages because I don't think there is any spam utility or filter that is perfect. At the same time, no system can predict with 100 % accuracy to my satisfaction on messages received from new sources, or those who have changed email addresses, or a new forum I joined and hadn't yet added the email address to a good filter. I want to maintain a "Hands-Off" approach when it comes to spam - which is working for me. All the spam goes to the trash, gets stripped of it's attachments and labeled red, as in the color. About once every other month or so, I may find spam that masqueraded it's deception well enough to get filed into one of my good folders and it really annoys me that I have to do more than glance at the offender. It's twice as offensive that they are so diligently sneaky and untruthful about their purposes. It bothers me very little that I have to fish out good messages from the trash every other day, because I don't mind laying hands on and spending energy on good mail, just the bad. I haven't changed any of the filters that act on spam in ages, so the energy I usually spend is in scanning and emptying the trash. That way, I still have some energy left for taking care of my good email, which occasionally means that I have to rescue it from drowning in the spam pool in my trash. I once used a couple throw-away addresses but every few months I spent way too much energy trying to remember which vendor got which email and which to inform of my new email. cheshirekat -- And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. - William Wordsworth (1770-1850) * 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram * * Addictions: iTunes * AppleScript * iLife 4 * FileMaker Pro *
