Re: Spam filter does not work

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:59:12 -0500

How are you going to get back at the spammer? Please explain. If you think you are going to get that info
from the headers of the e-mail good luck. The source there may know nothing about it and likely don't care
anyway. Spam them and you may find your ISP after your ***.

There is only one way to beat the spammer and that is never use the e-mail address for any purpose that has
anything to do with a commercial enterprise. They will all everyone of them sell or give your e-mail address out. They all do it say they don't but do. And then if you hook up with AOL or users that like to send mult-recipient e-mails you'll lock right into the spammers.

Spammers don't have horns and a forked tongue. Hopefully someday they'll have a police record and there
will be a movement to ban them from the Internet like we ban convicted Peadophiles from associating with
children, but that day has yet to come. 

-- 
George Hester
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"Titomontes" <Titomontes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4D23BF25-AB86-4001-A062-16701FE5CF4D@microsoft.com...
> I've already checked the message's headers, and none of them have any 
> reminiscence of an address known to me; I can't understand how is it possible 
> that a message gets through the exclusive filter. I even reinstalled outlook, 
> and I can't find a way to create rules, as i had in I-hate-spam plug-in. 
> Outlook also should have a way to get back at the spammer, as there is a new 
> program that works similarly to the SETI background program, overflowing the 
> website of the spammer (I can't recall the name, but it's sill beta).
> 
> A. Montes
> 
> "_Vanguard_" wrote:
> 
> > "Titomontes" <Titomontes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> > news:B2963F49-C753-40A9-B556-E087707D3DE2@microsoft.com...
> > >I have Outlook 2003 installed, and the spam filter is set to exclusive 
> > >and
> > > the rules have been updated to the last file microsoft provides, but 
> > > still
> > > spam gets to my Inbox.
> > > Is there any fix for this?
> > 
> > 
> > Presumably exclusive mode means you receive e-mails (i.e., they stay in 
> > your Inbox rather than getting deleted or moved) only from those senders 
> > that are listed in your address book(s) (i.e., contacts).  Well, that 
> > only means that the spammer has to use an e-mail address that is in your 
> > address book to get it past the exclusive filtering.  Might be about 
> > time to review your contacts to see if any of those are spam-friendly. 
> > Might be time to start looking at the headers of the spam e-mails to see 
> > if they indeed originate from the e-mail account they claim to 
> > originate.  I can say that I'm you when sending e-mails but the headers 
> > will say different. 
> > 
> >