Hello Gerard, Sunday, January 13, 2002, 8:59:08 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Bat Users, > There seems to be a lot of talk about spam filtering and even > suggestions for using extra programs. > Has anyone setup a good working Spam filter that he or she would be > willing to share with this group? > I only filter on the absence of my email address in the to field. It's > crude but is works pretty well except for certain mailing lists I > subscribe to. Therefore I have to put filters for these lists ahead of > my Spam filter. Actually my Spam filter comes almost last in line. That's more or less how mine is setup and it works for about 90% of spam. Additionally like you I have to put in extra bits for one or two lists. One in particular I have to add Envelope-to: <my@emailaddress> Kludges Presence NO As I have my own domain name as well I can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] which a lot of my friends know about and often send stuff to silly names like [EMAIL PROTECTED] which makes filtering a pain in the butt. :) > Who has an y good suggestions? I'm also noticing a marked increase in the last year of small scale spaming by individuals, who from the names gathered are trawling certain mailing lists and newsgroups and then inserting a whole bunch of addresses into the CC: field. These I deal with swiftly by forwarding the mail to the relevant ISP/provider and in a lot of cases it has got their email account pulled. I also send a strongly worded (legal sounding, I'm no lawyer :) reply to the originator warning them that any future junk posts from them will charged at �100 per k for wasting my bandwidth and legal fees. While this may not stop those who know it's a bluff it can and has put the wind of God up some amateurs. I've even got sorry replies from two, yes really. I've had this happen on a couple of mailing lists I run at Yahoo Groups and have dealt with it swiftly by banning them, informing Yahoo and their ISP. I also have spam filtering at my main domain host in place which catches most viruses and junk, it never gets as far as my mailbox which came in handy when some bright spark decided to try and mail bomb me. It's a shame that my other two ISP's don't have this. As for other good suggestions. Well this very subject came up on another list and one idea put forward was to feed the spammers each others addresses, which if everyone did correctly and for long enough would render spaming to be a useless exercise. That's the theory. :) -- Best regards, Richard Lane - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Magnum Opus http://www.magnumopus.co.uk -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
