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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:18
Alex Alten (Alten@home.com)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:58:55 -0800
I set up an extensive set of filters for my Eudora client.
Mostly I filter things like "..." or '!!!' or "sex" or
"Floodgate", etc. Everything drops into the trash folder.
Then just before I delete them I glance at the titles and
source names to see if I have any from legitimate sources.
So far this has worked quite well and what labor is
involved is small. The key is to realize that the spammers
have to write something that catches your eye on the
subject line. It turns out that many of them use the same
words and punctuation patterns over and over ("free",
"profit"). To refine things I put filters in ahead of
these spam filters to catch posts from people or mailing
lists that I want to read and redirect them to appropriate
topic folders. It's not perfect but at least for me spam
is almost invisible. My bigger problem now is how to
filter off topic posts. ;-)
- Alex
--Alex Alten
Alten@Home.Com Alten@TriStrata.Com
P.O. Box 11406 Pleasanton, CA 94588 USA (925) 417-0159
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:18