[FRIAM] More on Spam
To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood, So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering if there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do is click on the link that says, Please don't send me any more messages like this. But, of course, I have been told to NEVER click on any link in a message I suspect for any reason. So, then I look the organization up on the web, thinking that if the have a website that Earthlink's WebAdvisor doesn't hate, maybe I am safe to click the opt out link, but that takes a time, and, of course, the web message could always be a spoof. So, then I am back to doing nothing. Anybody got better than nothing as a strategy? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam
Nick At the cost of privacy. If you can use either POP or IMAP to access your emails on earthlink, try accessing them through a Gmail account and allow Gmail's spam filters to do their magic Just make sure though to setup Gmail to leave all messages on earthlink. In fact if you let Gmail loose for an 1 hour or so, you'll soon have a complete backup of your earthlink email inbox as a bonus. Sarbajit On 3/6/14, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood, So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering if there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do is click on the link that says, Please don't send me any more messages like this. But, of course, I have been told to NEVER click on any link in a message I suspect for any reason. So, then I look the organization up on the web, thinking that if the have a website that Earthlink's WebAdvisor doesn't hate, maybe I am safe to click the opt out link, but that takes a time, and, of course, the web message could always be a spoof. So, then I am back to doing nothing. Anybody got better than nothing as a strategy? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam
Are you using a Bayesian spam detector? I use one on the Mac called SpamSieve, and I used to use one on Windows called SpamBayes -- there was an Outlook plugin for it. You need to train it by correcting its mistakes. Most of them will train themselves (mostly) by having you point them to a folder of good messages and a folder of spam. It looks like you will be able to do that. The accuracy of my SpamSieve setup is very good; mine is at about 99%. —Barry On 6 Mar 2014, at 10:13, Nick Thompson wrote: To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood, So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering if there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do is click on the link that says, Please don't send me any more messages like this. But, of course, I have been told to NEVER click on any link in a message I suspect for any reason. So, then I look the organization up on the web, thinking that if the have a website that Earthlink's WebAdvisor doesn't hate, maybe I am safe to click the opt out link, but that takes a time, and, of course, the web message could always be a spoof. So, then I am back to doing nothing. Anybody got better than nothing as a strategy? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam
Barry, and others, Thanks, everybody, for taking my question seriously. I will investigate Spamseive. I get my email via a gmail account, a clark university account, and an earthlink account. Everything forwards to the earthlink account. Earthlink has its spam blocker which has served me pretty well up until the last few weeks, although I cannot get it to understand that If I send somebody a message, I would like to be able to receive the response. Clark University has its own spam system, although it may be the case that messages to me bounce right off the server without ever passing through it. Outlook is set to NOT open any images in a messages unless I tell it to. In general, if I suspect that something is spam, I move it directly to my McAFee spam folder without opening it, although I don't know what, if anything, follows from that. I assume that moving the message from one folder to another within Outlook does not provide any information to the spammer. My very best wishes to you all, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:25 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam Are you using a Bayesian spam detector? I use one on the Mac called SpamSieve, and I used to use one on Windows called SpamBayes -- there was an Outlook plugin for it. You need to train it by correcting its mistakes. Most of them will train themselves (mostly) by having you point them to a folder of good messages and a folder of spam. It looks like you will be able to do that. The accuracy of my SpamSieve setup is very good; mine is at about 99%. —Barry On 6 Mar 2014, at 10:13, Nick Thompson wrote: To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood, So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering if there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do is click on the link that says, Please don't send me any more messages like this. But, of course, I have been told to NEVER click on any link in a message I suspect for any reason. So, then I look the organization up on the web, thinking that if the have a website that Earthlink's WebAdvisor doesn't hate, maybe I am safe to click the opt out link, but that takes a time, and, of course, the web message could always be a spoof. So, then I am back to doing nothing. Anybody got better than nothing as a strategy? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
