-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <mid:102144798357.20021110172144@;freeuk.com>, Barry2 [B] wrote:'
B> I.E. Watch what you are downloading ( using the inbuilt Mail B> Dispatcher in TB! is for me an essential part of e-mail security B> ) and apply a little common sense .... offers too good to miss B> can want to offer you more than you bargained for ( viruses ) and B> those funny files can have the last laugh on you !! This sounds tedious. What's the difference between deleting them with the dispatcher and deleting them from your mailbox. Most spam mail aren't that big. The time you spend downloading headers and examining them is probably more than the time just downloading them and then going off-line. You can then delete them at your leisure. Why not do the following. Filter all known mail to specific folders. Filter all unknown mail to a spam folder. This will comprise a single filter that goes below all the others. It is to move all messages to the spam folder. Switch the sound off for this folder as well. Browse the spam folder at leisure. You can more easily delete, examine etc. When well developed, you'll have less and less legitimate mail reaching the folder so that you can examine it only once a day. A setup like this requires much less maintenance and is less intrusive and tedious, IMO. Far better than having to examine your mail with the dispatcher every time there's mail to download. The worst thing about spam is not that they hit your inbox. It's that you have to look at them among your other mail on a repeated basis, or that you're being alerted as equally about their presence as you would be about legitimate mail. - -- Allie C Martin \ TB! v1.62/Beta7 & WinXP Pro (SP1) List Moderator / PGP Key - http://pub-key.ac-martin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Win32) - GPGshell v2.65 iD8DBQE9zpolV8nrYCsHF+IRAg/XAKDNBkxcefwdwTzjinnH6upbTFVomgCePU9E 2V3C+o2pubPdv3RpqcydEMA= =vlpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
