F***n spam!

DavidM · 2004-05-18, 04:43 PM

Yes, I am getting about four or five a day which contain viruses or worms attached to them too. These actually make me laugh. (I'm weird)

You could do a couple things- not sure if you are up to it though (it can be some work). I would suggest making use of filters and entering in the email addresses (or domains only if your filter can do it) of the places you submit to and then send this to a special "folder". You could also add more assurance that you will see it by having another filter transfer messages with certain words in the subject (eg Submission, posted, denied, listed, etc - so that you will catch important stuff more often) in that same folder or a different tiered priority one.

With other people who you know, enter them in the filter too or just specify a certain "keyword" when listing your email address in certain places where people MUST include this among the subject for you to see (like some do with a submit code in LLs).

With known spam subjects (and many use the same ones) and senders have your filter toss those to a junk folder to check everyonce in a while. Outlook and Eudora I know have filters. Or you could go server side if you had to.

Not foolproof, but it shuld help. This is one of those things. Perhaps some blessed soul will one day develop a free A.I. expert system to do a better job in the future...

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2004-05-18, 04:43 PM	#6
DavidM If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 38	Yes, I am getting about four or five a day which contain viruses or worms attached to them too. These actually make me laugh. (I'm weird) You could do a couple things- not sure if you are up to it though (it can be some work). I would suggest making use of filters and entering in the email addresses (or domains only if your filter can do it) of the places you submit to and then send this to a special "folder". You could also add more assurance that you will see it by having another filter transfer messages with certain words in the subject (eg Submission, posted, denied, listed, etc - so that you will catch important stuff more often) in that same folder or a different tiered priority one. With other people who you know, enter them in the filter too or just specify a certain "keyword" when listing your email address in certain places where people MUST include this among the subject for you to see (like some do with a submit code in LLs). With known spam subjects (and many use the same ones) and senders have your filter toss those to a junk folder to check everyonce in a while. Outlook and Eudora I know have filters. Or you could go server side if you had to. Not foolproof, but it shuld help. This is one of those things. Perhaps some blessed soul will one day develop a free A.I. expert system to do a better job in the future...