I am a Windows Outlook user :^( To build an effective rule base for
stopping the flood of spam targeting Outlook, one must use the Rules Wizard
and set up rules that search for specific words in the senders address and
then redirect to the deleted bin. Do not setup rules to simply block
specific senders since the latest trick is to add random numbers to a long
sender name to confuse the e-mail programs.
So if you are getting lots of notes from people with addresses like:
"Tom Randall X10 Discount Manager [newsletter9@x10.com]"
, then set your rule to loof for "x10.com" and redirect to oblivion.
These guys aren't going to go away so now it's a Darwinian world with peace
of mind and privacy being the goal.
Mark Hooper
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete & Aprille Chadwell [mailto:pandachadwell@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:50 PM
To: Triumphs Mailing List
Subject: RE: WORSENING SPAM
>there are shareware products that help with spam
>what email application are you using ?
>outlook and outlook express both have anti spam features to them.
>just look in the help menu
>you can add keywords like mortgage interest etc. in any subject will be
>blocked.
I have been battling the SPAM as well. The spammers are industrious
little b*stards, though, as they always seem to find a way around my
filters. The filter which looks for 'FREE' is useless now because now
they use 'F R E E' or F-R-E-E. So then I made a filter for those
forms, and now I get messages with 'F_R_E_E' in the subject line.
This is just one piddly little example. Point is, there will never be
a way to eliminate all of it. Nothing is foolproof because fools are
so ingenious!! I have an ARSENAL of filters set up in Eudora, and
quite a few spams STILL get through. It's very frustrating. If things
keep going the way they are, my e-mail program will hog as much or
more of my Mac's 896 megs of RAM as Photoshop does!! GRRRR!
I wish I could say that Macs were SPAM proof, too!!
--
Pete Chadwell
1973 Triumph TR6
Apple Power Macintosh G4/400
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