Re: Spam filter does not work

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From: _Vanguard_ (lh_news_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:52:08 -0600

"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.
>>
>>

Do you have other rules? Maybe one of them is bypassing your exclusive
filter, or has a stop clause that prevents using the exclusive filter (I
don't have OL2003 so I don't know if the exclusive filter is employed by
a rule or a hardcoded option within the program). OL2003 has its
Bayesian filter, so maybe it is not detecting the message as spam but
has priority over the exclusive filter (which would be stupid but maybe
that is how it is setup).

"Getting back" makes you the vigilante that is a bane to normal society.
Extremists are never good for the moderate and normal society.
Microsoft won't be getting involved in vigilantism. 

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