On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:32:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Monday, February 14, 2000, 6:16:22 PM, Nick wrote:
>> Anyway, it's resolved for now... hopefully _that_ particular piece of scum
>> won't find my Inbox anymore. :o)
> Was it directed specifically towards you? Hate to tell you this
> but filtering on the address it comes from is a worthless venture.
> Most places cancel the addresses after they spammed for no more than
> a few hours. In the time it took you to create that filter I can
> almost guarantee that the address in question was nuked and, thus,
> would never send messages to you ever again.
Also Nick, in the medical fraternity we sometimes make a
diagnosis by exclusion. IOW, we do tests to see if the problem may be
secondary to x, y, z etc. If none of the tests come back positive then
it must be rare disease foobar. I particularly dislike that sort of
diagnostic workup hence my particular specialty.
Anyway to bring all that banter to perspective, get rid of spam by
first excluding all mail that is legitimately for you and then
consider the rest spam. With this method I hardly ever get legitimate
mail ending up in my spam folder or spam ending up in my inbox.
First create filters for all your regular legitimate mail.
Then create a filter to place all other messages addressed to you in
the inbox or some other created 'sundry' folder.
Then create the spam filter which is the last filter in the list. Set
it up to place the rest of messages that do not satisfy any of the
other previous filter rules in a spam folder.
With this setup I assure you that your inbox will be clean. Very few
spammers address messages directly to you and that's the reason why
this method works so well. If the message is not from x, y, z, etc or
it's not addressed directly to me, then it MUST be spam. :)
Hope that helps and I'd be willing to go in more detail if you like.
:)
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