Filters for Spam

Here is a filter that gets rid of alot of spam for me: [strings] £|¥|¤|§|«|»|À|Á|Å|µ|¿ [Location] Subject [Presence] Yes -- Regards, ~John Using The Bat! v1.62i on Windows 2000 5.0 (Build 2195) 2 Hard-drives (6 & 40 gig) 439 Mb RAM AMD 455 Processor. Programs running in the background: Griso

Re: Filters for Spam

Hello John, Friday, February 21, 2003, 5:23:51 PM, you wrote: ~> Here is a filter that gets rid of alot of spam for me: ~> [strings] ~> £|¥|¤|§|«|»|À|Á|Å|µ|¿ Why you would include a £ symbol. As a Brit I feel pretty insulted that my genuine e-mails could be filtered out as spam just

Re: Filters for Spam

I wish there was an easy way to copy filters between accounts or make a master set of filters that work on all accounts... I get the same spam coming to multiple email address and have to delete them over and over in 1 session... Friday, February 21, 2003, 11:23:51 AM, you wrote: > Here is a filt

Re: Filters for Spam

Hello Paul, Friday, February 21, 2003, 12:00:16 PM, you wrote: PS> As a Brit I feel pretty insulted that my genuine PS> e-mails could be filtered out as spam just because I PS> used the symbol of my countries currency (one of the PS> World's major currencies). If you are going to

Re: Filters for Spam

Paul Smithson wrote: P> Why you would include a £ symbol Why would you use that symbol in a subject line ? -- Regards, ~John Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Filters for Spam

Paul Smithson wrote: P> As a Brit I feel pretty insulted that my genuine P> e-mails could be filtered out as spam just because I P> used the symbol of my countries currency If someone is using currency symbols in the subject line, it is probably because they are wanting to sell someth

Re: Filters for Spam

Hi Spike, on Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:21:46 -0500GMT (21.02.03, 19:21 +0100GMT here), you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : S> Example from a recent Asian spam: S> Subject: ¡m¤@­Ó§Y£±N¾î±½½u¤W¹£CÀ¸ªº¤j«¬¹qª±½Ï¥Í¡A¡i¨M¾Ô¡j¹CÀ¸±N©ó12¤ë S> ¤£¤¶©­«±À¥X¡A¦¹¹CÀ¸¦bÁú°£ê¤w¸g±Æ¦W¨ì¤F²Ä1¦W¡A¦

Re: Filters for Spam

Hi Robert, on Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:25:52 -0600GMT (21.02.03, 19:25 +0100GMT here), you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : RCW> Roughly 1/3 of the spam I see looks like this: RCW> ¼ö½Å°ÅºÎÇÒ ¸ÞÀÏÁÖ¼Ò¸¦ , with no standard ASCII chars anywhere south of RCW> the header. It only mean

Re: Filters for Spam

Hello ~John, > Here is a filter that gets rid of alot of spam for me: > > [strings] > £ You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business e-mail :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.61

Re: Filters for Spam

On Friday, February 21, 2003, 1:21 PM, you wrote: S> I wish there was an easy way to copy filters between accounts or make a master S> set of filters that work on all accounts... I get the same spam coming to S> multiple email address and have to delete them over and over in 1 session... right-c

Re: Filters for Spam

Miguel A. Urech wrote: M> You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business M> e-mail :) No, I would not. If I was going to do business with you, I would add you to my address book, then my "Known" filter would catch your E-Mail before my Spam filters would. -- Regards, ~John

Re: Filters for Spam

Hello ~John, > No, I would not. If I was going to do business with you, I would add > you to my address book, then my "Known" filter would catch your E-Mail > before my Spam filters would. You are right. Anyway, I would never do business with someone whose name I can't pronounce. How the h*** you

Re: Filters for Spam

Hello Spike, > If you send me mail with $, £ or any other currency symbol in the > Subject line, you would certainly be sent to my TRASH folder, as you > are trying to sell me something I did not request. I said: "If we were doing business..." :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial -

Re: Filters for Spam

Miguel A. Urech wrote: M> You are right. Anyway, I would never do business with someone whose M> name I can't pronounce. How the h*** you pronounce ~John starting with M> the ~? ;-) Very carefully! LOL -- Regards, ~John Current version is 1.62 |

Re: Filters for Spam

> You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business > e-mail :) Can't see why since this is what a whitelist would and should fix. / St Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/

Re: Filters for Spam

> Try replying to the right person. You just piggybacked my reply ;-) I see that now...just forget I replied, people...and once again I did not add anything clever to the discussion... / St Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hello Paul Smithson, On or about Friday, February 21, 2003 at 18:00:16GMT + (which was 1:00 PM in the tropics where I live) Paul Smithson postulated, ruminated and made these points on the subject of "Filters for Spam": PS> Hello John, PS> Friday, February 21, 2003, 5:23:

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hello Miguel A. Urech, On or about Friday, February 21, 2003 at 19:45:04GMT +0100 (which was 1:45 PM in the tropics where I live) Miguel A. Urech posted: >> [strings] >> £ MAU> You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business MAU> e-mail :) If you send me mail with $, £ or a

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hi Paul, Friday, February 21, 2003, 6:00:16 PM, you wrote: PS> Hello John, PS> Friday, February 21, 2003, 5:23:51 PM, you wrote: ~>> Here is a filter that gets rid of alot of spam for me: ~>> [strings] ~>> £|¥|¤|§|«|»|À|Á|Å|µ|¿ PS> Why you would include a £ symbol. PS> As a Brit I feel

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hi Miguel, Friday, February 21, 2003, 6:45:04 PM, you wrote: MAU> Hello ~John, >> Here is a filter that gets rid of alot of spam for me: >> >> [strings] >> £ MAU> You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business MAU> e-mail :) Well, no, because if you have any sense you mak

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hi St, Saturday, February 22, 2003, 1:59:18 AM, you wrote: >> You would drop many messages from me if you and I exchanged business >> e-mail :) SMN> Can't see why since this is what a whitelist would and should fix. Try replying to the right person. You just piggybacked my reply ;-) -- Bes

Re[2]: Filters for Spam

Hello ~John, Friday, February 21, 2003, 6:22:26 PM, you wrote: ~> Paul Smithson wrote: P>> Why you would include a £ symbol ~> Why would you use that symbol in a subject line ? You make a very valid point :))) Current version is 1.62 | "Using T

Not 20 ¥, not 20 but 20 € (was: filters for Spam)

Hello Bats, Now John did not see I was planning to donate him 20 ¤! :-)) alas, now it is too late... -- Best Whishes, Mark using The Bat! 1.63 Beta/7 Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.s

Re: Not 20 ¥, not 20 but 20 € (was: filters for Spam)

Hello Mark, Friday, February 21, 2003, 8:23:03 PM, you wrote: MP> Hello Bats, MP> Now John did not see I was planning to donate him 20 ¤! :-)) MP> alas, now it is too late... Strange, in the original message, the subject was: "Not 20 ¥, not 20 £ but 20 ¤" Anyone any idea why this was change

Re: Not 20 ¥, not 20 but 20 € (was: filters for Spam)

Mark Partous wrote: M> Now John did not see I was planning to donate him 20 ¤! :-)) M> alas, now it is too late... As Homer Simpson would say, DOH !!! -- Regards, ~John Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstone