Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:54:14AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for "paypal" or > "ebay" coming up at all in message headers or bodies on a debian linux > discussion group, and so why not ditch the lot at source? Perhaps you should have checked th

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-08 Thread Katipo
Doofus wrote: Katipo wrote: Doofus wrote: Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for "paypal" or "ebay" coming up at all in message header

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-08 Thread Doofus
Katipo wrote: Doofus wrote: Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for "paypal" or "ebay" coming up at all in message headers or bodies on a

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:42, Katipo wrote: >Doofus wrote: >> Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail >> or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this >> here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for >> "paypal" or "ebay" coming up at a

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Katipo
Doofus wrote: Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for "paypal" or "ebay" coming up at all in message headers or bodies on a debian linux d

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Doofus
roach wrote: On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? I think your looking at this from the wrong direction. ;-) I also want to filter out "paypal" and "ebay" spam,

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread roach
On Sunday 07 August 2005 13:21, Björn Lindström wrote: <...> > I think the main point was that there are much better and general ways > to prevent spam, such as requiring that the envelope sender is actually > a member of the list. <...> Please, I beg you, tell me how you do that. That's sounds gr

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread roach
On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? I think your looking at this from the wrong direction. ;-) I also want to filter out "paypal" and "ebay" spam, but I filter on "Rece

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-08-07 00:26:32, schrieb Doofus: > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? > > I'll be suprised if this hasn't been asked before, but I'm fairly new here. Do it yourself in procmail: :0 * ^Subject:.*(ebay|paypal

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Björn Lindström
doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand clearly now. This is the ideal place in which to buy and > sell hardware. As opposed to, say, discussing issues related to using > Debian/GNU linux. I think the main point was that there are much better and general ways to prevent spam, such as re

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread doofus
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-08-07 01:40:28, schrieb Frans Pop: On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? Sometimes people will ask questions about hardware

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-06 Thread Brendan
On Saturday 06 August 2005 07:40 pm, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: > > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? > > Sometimes people will ask questions about hardware they want to buy /

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-08-07 01:40:28, schrieb Frans Pop: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: > > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? > > Sometimes people will ask questions about hardware they want to buy / > bought

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 06 August 2005 04:26 pm, Doofus wrote: > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything > with "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? You can. Check out procmail or your MUA's filter options. > I'll be suprised if this hasn't been asked before, but I'm fairly

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? Sometimes people will ask questions about hardware they want to buy / bought on ebay... pgpsxcgRbsyYL.pgp Description: PGP signatu

OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-06 Thread Doofus
Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? I'll be suprised if this hasn't been asked before, but I'm fairly new here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL