Hello David,
If you have any more creative filters for jumping off points, I could
sure use the nudge. Just getting started here, but spam drives me
crazy too!
With compliments,
Skie Dansforth
Sunday, August 13, 2000, 9:55:47 AM, you wrote:
DP> Sunday, August 13, 2000, 11:43:57 AM, you wrote:
JP>> Hi fellow Bat! fans,
JP>> In Gravity News Reader there is a "bozo bin" option to dump a sender
JP>> without making a filter. Each bozo can be edited as to length of
JP>> the bozo bin filter etc.
JP>> I am getting more & more spam these days, and I am sure this idea
JP>> would help a lot of Bat! users, or is there another way to handle
JP>> these pests?
DP> Do you ever get two spams from the same email address though? It
DP> rarely happens because the from address is almost always fake. This is
DP> useful on newsgroups for ignoring people, but less useful for spam. A
DP> better idea is to pick some creative filters.
DP> I have two filters:
DP> A lot of spam mentions some supposed email bill, so this works nicely
DP> 1) Location: Text
DP> String: Section 301
DP> Presence: Yes
DP> Move messages to: spam
DP> Set colour to: brown
DP> A lot of spam gets sent directly to my ISPs server, usually from
DP> someone on a dial-up, using software that does DNS lookups on email
DP> addresses and telnets into the destination server directly. These
DP> emails will only have a single "Received" header usually. It excludes
DP> email from my ISP which might legitimately only have one Received
DP> header, and notifications about large attachments from The Bat.
DP> 2) Location: Kludges
DP> String: ((?s)Received.*){2,}
DP> Presence: No
DP> and
DP> Location: Sender
DP> String: (.*freeserve.*)|(Bat)
DP> Presence: No
DP> Use regular expressions.
DP> Action as above
DP> --
DP> Dave - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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