My apologies for the blatantly OT post but I hope this will help some people out there. Hello ya'll, I'm sure nearly every one of us is tormented by unsolicited spam (if only I could throttle the !@#!@# that send it, and the even more stupid !$!#@# that buy from spam). Anyway, it seems most spam I have received in the past little while has had msn.com in their header. Depending upon your e-mailer you can set up "Rules" (Outlook Express) or "Filters" (Eudora) to send crap directly to your trash. Chances are you don't know anyone who uses msn.com as their e-mail source (and, if they do encourage them not to ;). ... so you can safely create an "msn.com" filter (in the From line) that will send all of the crap right into the trash (and, if you are creative with your scripting, you can automatically send the message, header and all to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where they'll use it to update spam blocking filters). In recent days I found that my real hotmail account was being bombarded by spam that managed to slip through the "Bulk mail folder" (to the point of being unusable... 10 spam: 1 e-mail (& my bulkmail folder was virtually ineffective). Creating a filter in the on-line options (I don't use Outlook Express for that account) called Filters to send msn.com appearing in the >From address to the trash has disposed of 95+% of the spam. The reason spammers are faking msn.com in their From addresses is that Hotmail allows, by default, all mail "originating" in the MSN.COM and HOTMAIL.COM domains through to a hotmail inbox. It seems their filtering software is ineffective in catching these faked msn.com addresses (or else they're being paid to allow the spam through which wouldn't surprise me either) and thus spammers are using that technique now. I have *never* received an e-mail from the msn.com domain that I wanted so I have no fear whatsoever in banning all msn.com-related e-mail from my accounts. Similarly, you can filter e-mail coming from other domains this way, and you can apply these filters to any of your e-mail addys that have spam problems (I have .cz set-up as well... I don't know anyone in Czechoslovakia & that top-level domain is a source of spam for me). Good luck keeping your e-mail addresses as your own!!! Eric. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Friends -- Complete Series on Video CD -- $289.17 Back to the Future Collection on Video CD -- $15.97 EurekaMovies.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/eureka.html> - - - - - G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
