Hi! Jim Davis wrote:
> > And my problem is not filtering the spam. I have great filter ability > > with my emailer. But this virus gets around filters and continues to > > flood my inbox where I have to got through them all carefully and sort > > out that real email and delete the rest. It's just a real pain in the > > arse doing it a few times a day to keep some space in my mail box. I agree here with Chip. Sounds like you are not doing the spam filtering correctly. I admit that I do not know what is Forte Agent and how it works, but as a general rule, one can not make spam filters themselves. You really need to use some specialized spam filter. Some of them update databases or ask if something is spam from some internet server. More recently there have been others that use fuzzy logic or neural networks (or actually Bayesian algorithms). You should get one of these. I haven't used popfile, but sounds like a good product. Take a look at it. Another POP filter is Spam Assassin based saproxy (http://saproxy.bloomba.com/moreinfo.php), also probably worth a look. (There should be a free version of saproxy...) Otherwice, if you change your email, but continue to distribute it online (like on your web-page), it's just a matter of time when you have the same problem again. Actually that time is getting incresingly small. Only changing email is not the answer. It is a good step, but doesn't solve anything. If you change the email, but do not publish it anywhere, then you will be safe. > > Obviously some ISPs are more affected than others. Also, it depends on ISP has nothing to do with it. (Well, sope ISP's still allow their servers to be used for sending spam, but they all receive it just the same.) > > how long your email address has been active. Mine is over 3 years now. Time, as such, has nothing to do with it either. > > That means my email address resides on lots of servers and machines > > around the world waiting for harvest. A newer address might only have This is the key. If you distribute your email address on your web-page (where robots just like Google can come... except that they are only interested about emails) and write to web-forums or news... that's when you start getting spam. > > a few virus machines harvesting it and not be such a problem. I bet there are increasing number of email harvesting robots crawling the net just like the Google. And they are just getting better in finding the email addresses. Chip wrote: > learn what you think is SPAM then your filter is not working. If messages > that you don't want are getting into you "Inbox" you have a problem with > your filtering, it's as simple as that. Exactly. Best regards, Hugo. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
