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> Robin van Spaandonk
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> All SPAM goes in the trash unread.
Easy way to can spam!
In Linux, get into your K-Mail program where you get your mail...sans virii.
By the way, of cos' your sniffin the net as an 'ordinary user' and not as the
'root' user. Never sniff the net as the 'super'.
Then go to 'Settings' and pick 'Configure Filters'
Do radio button 'Match all of the following;
Under first criteria line:
header item to key on criteria definition
To does'nt equal <your address>
Under advanced options, check all boxes except 'to sent messages'. Leave that
one clear. Then click 'ok' at the bottom and this filter is set.
Next turn HTML off in the K-Mail settings for e-mail
Turn cookies and java and javascript off for e-mail
make two more filters, one to catch html messages by keying on 'any header'
and define it as containing the phrase 'text/html'. The next by defining the
last filter by keying again on 'any header' and using the definition to look
for as the phrase 'multipart/alternative'
Linux' K-Mail has a good filter system that is better and far more flexible
than windows. The above method will not work in windows. In windows
you are at the mercy of rapacious html code, and have only the most
rudimentary control over java and javascript.
The above filters work because scamming scum likes to get maximum distribution
for thier digital feces. They usually do not know your name, and if they
do, it is part of a long list. The list trips them up, and non use of your
name alone on the too line trips them up. It is more effective than all the
catch playing on the subject line. This is because the too line is more
restrictive. Spammers also cannot resist using html and/or attachments. It
is both their way of hiding malware and also of delivering it. Disallow its
use and detect and divert it automatically on reciept to the appropriate
holding cell (just to see the roaches before you step on them)......and the
junk will be gone and you will never be bothered by it again. What shows up
now in your box will be pretty much your stuff.
Unless you are an Earthlink subscriber! Some insider in that national ISP
is selling their subscriber list to spammers and international crooks. These
suede shoe boys are running phishing rackets posing as Earthlink when they
are not posing as Nigerian 'royal heiresses' etc, and may have your specific
e-address. Letters to Earthlink about the crooks go unanswered, and somebody
there has finally succeeded in making of the common telephone a useless
device good only for the amusement of two year olds to ring the tones for the
entertainment of the digital robots on the other end. So if you get a lot of
that, just send it to the FCC if you feel like it. Do not hold your breath
there either.
Standing Bear
