Re[2]: Selective download filters
Hello Jurgen other TB! list members following this thread, On Monday, September 22, 2003 Jurgen responded to my saying the following: I link all accounts to the same text file, which I continue to lengthen whenever new Spam mongers are found. This is much easier that adding strings to each and every separate account. JH could you maybe share this file with me? I am going along the JH same line, and am always interested in catch-phrases :-) Sure - I assume you want it sent directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I probably have a couple of versions, since I haven't been transferring the strings added to the desktop computer's text file to the laptop and vice versa, and I can't recall if I added the strings that were put in each account's filter manager before deciding to do a .txt file But the main thing I wanted to say is that my most important filtering device is my eyeball, and I can spot extraneous unexpected mail rather quickly. One of the major clues is the size column, sine no virus is going to come in with a size like these messages have. For instance: I just manually killed two of Microsoft Patch viruses on the server, one of which said error message. It's also easy to notice that the one that said Microsoft didn't in fact come from Microsoft, as the headers showed. If the headers were correct, a friend of mine in Guadalajara has an infected computer, so I'll drop him a note to let him know. The Spam file contains the usual words like mortgage, loan, viagra, and sex as well as the domains these things came from, but I can send it on if you really think it will do you any good. The beauty of the Mail Dispatcher is the fact that I can review and rectify all that comes in, so that some things marked for deletion are downloaded, and some things marked for downloading are deleted. In general however, the selective download filter and Spam.txt file save me some time. This is why I hesitate to use a service that figures out these things for me. I want to use my own judgement in real time. For instance, I just downloaded one of those things from Africa asking for help getting X millions of dollars out of the country, just because it was so ingeniously written. (Obviously, I have no intention on following through on that though, and I get lots of these scams that are killed on the server). -- Douglas Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Selective download filters
Jurgen, I sent the following to TBUDL twice earlier and yet it hasn't been posted. I wonder why. Two other posts I sent were posted, so I'm not being blocked out. Maybe if you redirect it, it will go through. Douglas Hello Jurgen other TB! list members following this thread, On Monday, September 22, 2003 Jurgen responded to my saying the following: I link all accounts to the same text file, which I continue to lengthen whenever new Spam mongers are found. This is much easier that adding strings to each and every separate account. JH could you maybe share this file with me? I am going along the JH same line, and am always interested in catch-phrases :-) Sure - I assume you want it sent directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I probably have a couple of versions, since I haven't been transferring the strings added to the desktop computer's text file to the laptop and vice versa, and I can't recall if I added the strings that were put in each account's filter manager before deciding to do a .txt file But the main thing I wanted to say is that my most important filtering device is my eyeball, and I can spot extraneous unexpected mail rather quickly. One of the major clues is the size column, sine no virus is going to come in with a size like these messages have. For instance: I just manually killed two of Microsoft Patch viruses on the server, one of which said error message. It's also easy to notice that the one that said Microsoft didn't in fact come from Microsoft, as the headers showed. If the headers were correct, a friend of mine in Guadalajara has an infected computer, so I'll drop him a note to let him know. The Spam file contains the usual words like mortgage, loan, viagra, and sex as well as the domains these things came from, but I can send it on if you really think it will do you any good. The beauty of the Mail Dispatcher is the fact that I can review and rectify all that comes in, so that some things marked for deletion are downloaded, and some things marked for downloading are deleted. In general however, the selective download filter and Spam.txt file save me some time. This is why I hesitate to use a service that figures out these things for me. I want to use my own judgement in real time. For instance, I just downloaded one of those things from Africa asking for help getting X millions of dollars out of the country, just because it was so ingeniously written. (Obviously, I have no intention on following through on that though, and I get lots of these scams that are killed on the server). -- Douglas Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Selective download filters
Hello ken other TB! list members following this thread, On Sunday, September 21, 2003, you wrote: kg I guess I need to decide if I should switch all account to POP3 kg or continue using IMAP and create a sorting rule that would kg delete unwanted messages from the server. kg Hmmm any recommendations? I use POP3 on accounts and selective download exclusively with the mail dispatcher, which I set to download 25 lines. That way, Selective Download will filter on anything contained in that number of lines and you can review all that's occurring in order to make any changes you feel are appropriate regarding what will and what won't be downloaded. I link all accounts to the same text file, which I continue to lengthen whenever new Spam mongers are found. This is much easier that adding strings to each and every separate account. -- Douglas Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Selective download filters
Hello Gordon, On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, at 18:38:07 [GMT +1000] (which was 09:38 in my TimeZone) you wrote: GW Hello Michael, GW On Saturday, September 20, 2003, 6:16:54 PM, you wrote: After getting about 200 Sven worm type emails a day, I would like to know if the selective download filter is case sensitive. Is the string this is a string the same as This Is a String as far as the filter is concerned? GW What strings are you using? There seem to be a huge number of options. GW For one brief period they were arriving faster than I could delete GW them, but almost all to an address I've hardly ever used -- my mail GW address at my broadband ISP, half a world away from my mail host for GW my domain name where I've only had (so far) about six. First thing GW today there were nearly 400 in my mail at the local ISP and no other GW messages at all (not even any other spam!) GW However that does make it easy to use message dispatcher. Just going through the long list of actual messages and creating a list. They dont appear random, but they do share a set of names that are more prevelent than others. -- Best regards, Michael http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk/ PGP KeyID := 0xA9547E32 If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
