Greetings,
There is a way to selectively filter your email on any field by using a
program called PROCMAIL.
For example, you could refuse all email from earthlink except for
mysister@earthlink.com.
I won't get into on the list, so if you're interested in more info, ask your
ISP or send me an email directly.
Your ISP would need to support this, however.
vmichael@enteract.com
Cheers,
Vic
On Sunday, July 12, 1998 11:29 PM, Cwn74@aol.com [SMTP:Cwn74@aol.com] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-07-12 16:13:51 EDT, fold@bcpl.net writes:
>
> > Very little spam actually originates from earthlink, worldcom, hotmail,
> > erols, flashnet, and the other big providers. If you ignore the address
> > on the "From:" line (which is almost always faked in spam) and examine
> > the
> > "Received" lines you can determine where it really came from.
> >
> I can't argue with you, but by blocking worldcom, the spam immediately
> stoped.
>
> This method proved effective in stopping hotmail spam also.
>
> If the return address was faked, it must have been from another worldcom or
> hotmail account??
>
> The only reason I didn't block earthlink was my sister has an account
there.
>
> Clark
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