Hello Allie, Sunday, November 10, 2002, 5:40:56 PM, you wrote:
ACM> In <mid:102144798357.20021110172144@;freeuk.com>, ACM> 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 !! ACM> This sounds tedious. What's the difference between deleting them ACM> with the dispatcher and deleting them from your mailbox. The difference is that the rubbish isn't sent to me at all - I consider it a complete waste of bandwidth to transfer megabytes of data onto my PC just to then dump it in the bin !!! ACM> Most spam mail aren't that big. The time you spend downloading ACM> headers and examining them is probably more than the time just ACM> downloading them and then going off-line. You can then delete them ACM> at your leisure. Time isn't the issue at all - sure it means scanning through the headers but with TB!'s ability to list those by Name / Sender / Size it isn't hard to weed out the spam from the mail that is wanted. It's also a good first line of defense against new virus outbreaks - you soon develop an eye for strange message headers and a group of large files of the same size. As an example - scanning a download of 200 mails or so takes no more than a couple of minutes and the subsequent download time is much shorter for the lack of the Spam ! ACM> Why not do the following. ACM> Filter all known mail to specific folders. It already is of course :-) Only new mail ends up in the Inbox. ACM> Filter all unknown mail to a spam folder. This will comprise a ACM> single filter that goes below all the others. It is to move all ACM> messages to the spam folder. Switch the sound off for this folder as ACM> well. Again, just is a waste of bandwidth and to scan through such a folder would take longer than to go through the headers in the Mail Dispatcher ... not that it's the time angle I'm bothered about, but surely it's more tedious to go through a whole folder full of Spam just to weed out what you'd pick up in a matter of seconds before you downloaded ?? I guess everyone has their own way of using TB! - and for me that is one of its great strengths - but I can assure you that pre-scanning the headers first isn't tedious in the slightest - on a dial-up connection it can be more tedious just watching all that rubbish come down the phone line < lol > Each to their own - but the original question was about how to efficiently fight Spam .... the way we do it here there is ZERO spam on our systems and the only mail we get is the mail we *want* to get. As a Spam / Virus fighting methodology that takes some beating < lol > NB - just in case .. we also run up to date AV and Firewall too :-) -- Best regards, Barry2 Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
