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In article <eat-ya02408000R1001980333490001@news.earthlink.net>,
eat@joes.grub (Lefty) wrote:

> YIKES!! I was really hoping that this thread was gonna give me some good
> tips on filtering spam in my email. Btw, I have cut my respose to
> aus.computers.mac because crossposting is spam too. If anyone has some good
> tips on spam filtering with Claris Emailer, please post em!!

OK - the tip I got from Claris..

(this first bit is part of my "sick of spam" advice - see .sig)
>If you're on CompuServe or AOL, and possibly other providers, I'm sorry -
>you're going to have to change providers. This solution requires a 
separate
>email program that you can configure with filters. (Latest versions of
>Netscape and Internet Explorer do have these.)

..but David Cortright emailed me to point out..
*****
This is not true.  Claris Emailer supports both AOL and Compuserve, and
has more robust filtering capabilities than Eudora.  The filter I use
checks for BCCs, but also checks to see if the sender is in the address
book.  This way I can receive BCCs from people I know (esp. useful when
someone is changing jobs, addresses, ...).

I have created a few tools to do this in Claris Emailer, and they can be
found on http://www.fogcity.com
*********

So there you are. That's the place for the info.





> I set up massive amounts of filtering on my newsreader (Yet Another
> Newswatcher and MT Newswatcher) to get rid of the posted spam........
> Sometimes I find the groups empty after that. I wish there was a way that I
> could upload my anti-spam filters to my ISP so I wouldn't have to bother
> downloading the headers.

Bigfoot does, but you might get your ISP to IP block stuff from certain
domains. Some do that - they discuss which on lists like Spam-L.

...
> I delete anything that comes from someone I don't know

A touch OTT. What's the point of Usenet etc if not to communicate with
people you don't yet know?

> or has one of the
> classic subject lines that all the spammers use. Not the greatest approach
> for business users though. If I see enough of the same address coming at
> me, I write another filter. My buddy keeps getting "adult-site" invites to
> his AOL address with a picture attached. The picture is risque, but not
> obscene. Problem is that he will get a load of them while he is out of town
> and it will take near an hour for him to manually go through his mail and
> delete these. Fortunately, with AOL, he doesn't actually have to down load
> the images. With a direct ISP account, I have to download the whole dang
> thing to get it out of my mailbox so I can get to the next message.

True, it's a problem. Mail-side filtering is sort-of possible with Eudora
if you're confident enough about the quality of your filters.

> Keep the tips and filter ideas coming. Revenge is best when served up cold.
> The spamming will slow down as soon as the people stop responding to them.

Maybe, but idiocy springs eternal, both among spammers and their shills.

   Charles
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