Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-28 Thread Kay C Lan
Jeffery Reynolds wrote: one thing that has stemmed the tide for me is to start putting your > email address on all your web posts as a java encoded text (there are > several schemes out there to do this) instead of straight html. while > this wont get rid of things immediately, it has slowed the t

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Timothy Miller
Timothy Miller wrote: My ISP has installed a spam filter called "Vanquish" that works, well... perfectly. --snip-- Alex Tweedly replied: I've never tried any of these schemes, so I may be misunderstanding the details, but ... if you send a message which can't be delivered (e.g. you m

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
Timothy Miller wrote: My ISP has installed a spam filter called "Vanquish" that works, well... perfectly. Vanquish doesn't attempt to filter by content, subject line or IP. Instead,legitimate senders not on my "allow" list get directed to a website where they have to type some graphic char

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Timothy Miller
scott, one thing that has stemmed the tide for me is to start putting your email address on all your web posts as a java encoded text (there are several schemes out there to do this) instead of straight html. while this wont get rid of things immediately, it has slowed the tide a lot for me a

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
scott, one thing that has stemmed the tide for me is to start putting your email address on all your web posts as a java encoded text (there are several schemes out there to do this) instead of straight html. while this wont get rid of things immediately, it has slowed the tide a lot for me a

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Change your email address. Then for a transition period hook up the old address to a auto-responder to direct people to a web page with a small cgi that can forward a small message. Like this: http://barncard.com/contact/ The people that really need to get to you can still do so, and you ca

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Baxter
Scott Rossi wrote: [sigh] Even with filters and spam blockers and rules, these all address the symptoms, not the source of the problem. Somebody somewhere needs to do something about this. Something that could help considerably would be if mail server admins, and service providers generally,

RE: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread MisterX
> From Sarah Reichelt > And I can't resist this one from Xavier: > > > And I thought mac users were not affected by window viruses ;) > > Last week you took a virus warning to be an attack on Windows > users, now you seem to be trying to stir up the same debate > that you condemned then. I

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Dom
Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I don't own the server (it's a commercial ISP) > and I don't initially see any option specifically for filtering returned > mail Try Mailfilter! It's a *nix thing, but that works... I tested it with a seldom used address for tes

RE: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread MisterX
- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Scott Rossi > Sent: Sunday, 27 November, 2005 11:16 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail > > Recently,Sarah Reichelt wrote: > > > While I haven'

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently,Sarah Reichelt wrote: > While I haven't experienced this at your level (yet), I have > encountered it. The key seems to be filtering on the addressee. Emails > to you are addressed to you specifically and presumably others in your > organisation are the same. In my experience, these retur

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently,Jerry Muelver wrote: >> Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of >> bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the >> original messages -- I'm receiving the bounced attempts and server notices >> as a result of virus propagation. > ..

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Sorry to put this OT subject on the list but I'm hoping to solicit some of > the more knowledgeable minds out there... > > Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of > bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the > original messages -- I'm re

RE: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread MisterX
Muelver > From: "Scott Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail > > > > Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a > tidal wave > > of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not > initia

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: "Scott Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving the b

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving the bounced attempts and server notices as a result of virus propagation. I am routinely inundate

[OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Sorry to put this OT subject on the list but I'm hoping to solicit some of the more knowledgeable minds out there... Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving the