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Article #20Re: Mailguard?????
From: Tim
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:49
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:49
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Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:14:54 -0400, William R Abbey > <abbeyw@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >>Mine does not work for some reason. I have tried to turn it on but >>have been unable to do so. I have been using a program called >>spamkiller. The developer recently sold it to Mcafee and it does a >>pretty good job, but it won't handle the slick move you are >>describing. > > > What I have found against this stuff that works well is: > > - create whitelist of known, trusted users and accept their stuff w/o > question > > - then dump ALL HTML mail as spam (90%+ of spam is HTML). > > I doubt mailguard will ever have that kind of flexibility. > > I've gotten 1100+ spams this week, and only 6 have gotten through. About 99.9% of the spam I've been getting recently is coming from Yahoo accounts. Looks to me like Yahoo could put an end to mass mailings. The spammers must have some sort of automatic Yahoo registration process working in order to be able to mass mail from hundreds of unique addresses like they do.
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