Spam s'mam..... One of the things I found out is never give out you email for lists..... uh oh too late, I am on all the lists. I get 200 emails a day. I tried the outlook and outlook express filters and the Spamers get around them. I tried the anti-Spam or Spam killers, and the one's you get for free put you on more lists!! What we all know is they get around the filters by changing addresses, by changing subject lines and body messages, send picture named untitled to get around Spam filters. You can tie up your life trying to keep them out of your inbox. And still miss the important EMail's that you want from people you know or newsletter's (ST) that you want.
Finally my solution......LET THEM IN YOUR INBOX!!! COME ON IN Dude!!! Sit down here and stay awhile. We'll get to you in a moment!! I filter all the mail that I WANT from people I know into individual mailboxes, so I can see when I get ST and when my son emails me or my daughter. That mail I know and filters work on them everytime. They are not trying to hide from me there message intention. Some Spam I filter into a junk mailbox by "address domain" only via a "rule" using words in the sender's address. The rules that apply Boolean filters on the message body or subject line simply do not work well consistently. And when you get your "rule" or filters all set, a smart Spammer thinks up a new one to get by. You think they don't use a variety of Anti-Spam program to test with so they can get through to you and get their "tick" to get paid. Some Spam is always let in and some valid EMail is deleted or filtered by mistake. I have some EMail messages that I really need for business purposes. So everything sure is filtered into appropriate mailboxes. The rest is left in my INBOX. I scan the headers visually and do a CTRL A while in the INBOX to select them all or use CTRL key and mouse to select individual messages without opening them. Mostly a quick scan and they are all gone! Hit delete and they all go in the deleted messages and empty that soon as I get done. They want in, let them in and delete all INBOX mail. Your filters can be used usefully by separating your appropriate incoming mail to individual mailboxes and you don't have to keep getting new antispam programs and creating or changing filters to fight the Spammer. Hell, CTRL A and DEL works for me!! Cheap and quick and no more hassle. Welcome to my INBOX said the spider to the Spammer! Bye Bye! The quick header eyescan is for people you might not remember you want mail from, but soon your filters will have all you want to let in to other mailboxes and do their job. I tried building filters with rules upon rules and still got Spam in my inbox. I had a crash ... lost a motherboard, and was going to import all my filters and rules to the new machine and thought let's try a new approach since I had about 150 filters or "rules" and was still getting Spam. This has worked the best and with less hassle than I have ever had before, trying to keep them out. The popup messages are a hold over from network messaging and has to do with Instant Messaging Services, don't want that crap, turn off all IM and it is gone. If you want IM, there are ways to shut the popup messages off, but I haven't looked into it. Just turn off the IM and done. It used to be used early on in Windows for Workgroups to talk to other Local Area Network user's that were logged on and had Messaging turned on. You could uninstall this in 95 and 98 , but the newer versions of OS are tied to IM so not sure where it can be turned off. UNIX had the same capability, I could send a message to your tty port, or your modem, that is what they are doing is someone on your ISP does this to your connection interface. They scan your ISP's IP address range to see which has online connections and send to them or just send to a range of address and you get the network popup message. Just another epistle ...... Dr. Voo RxGolf Custom Clubs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rees Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Outlook Express problem plus Messenger ads On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:05:34PM -0800, tflan wrote: > > Out of about the usual 20 - 30 messages I get each day, nearly half > are "spam." Its a real pain in the neck to have to cull them out. I've > tried a few spam killers but they aren't perfect. The junk mail is > distributed via sold mail lists as well as the same way those junk > phone calls are sent. Random dialing. As soon as you open a spam mail > someone, somewhere, knows you exist. Then you're really screwed. If you use Outlook 2000 or XP, go grab Cloudmark SpamNet. Support for Outlook Express is coming soon. How it works is it calculates a signature for each email and compares it to a database of known spam. If the signatures match, it is marked as spam for easy deletion. If it doesn't catch a piece of spam, you can report it to the servers. If it calls an email spam that really isn't (a newsletter you signed up for), then you report it back to the servers as not spam. Works pretty well, and will catch the majority of spam falling in your mailbox. Best part is that it's free! http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ -Dave
