Re: Free Spam Filter

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Malvern wrote:

John,

What Bruce advises is my bible. In addition, I do the following,
among other things...
1.) set up message rules for where the subject line contains specific
words you always see. Spammers are continually changing their names
and addresses blocked sender list is rendered useless.


I would be very wary of simply doing that. Filtering on a particular word or
words is likely to get you all sorts of false positives. I'd rather live
with an occasional piece of Spam than run that risk. Real spam-filtering
software is much more intelligent when it comes to how it decides what is
spam.


2.) have the courtesy to remove the e-mail addresses form others'
messages in forwards and replies in e-mail I send out as the "robots"
scan for these. The "@" is the trip switch for them. Yes it's a bit
time consuming but the door is somewhat locked at my end.


Sorry, but I don't understand that at all. How does a robot even get to see
your E-mail forwards or replies? Don't mix up E-mail forwards and replies
with newsgroup replies (where this *is* an issue).

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


Recently my ISP started to filter out what it regards as spam. I get
daily messages now to go look at the holdings and download
legitimate items form my Mass Mailers.

Even a few unwanted items slip through their system.

Malv.

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