Hi Online, On Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 10:53 GMT -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [osn] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :
osn> Totally in agreement. In the past I used SPUMBUSTER and then osn> SPAMKiller, but I that was taking a lot of time. Yes, it does get time consuming. I haven't had to adjust my Bat filters in quite awhile and they work like a charm. osn> I used the filteres not only for spam but for virus as well. For osn> every critical virus I input key words of the subjetct matter. osn> And that has worked pretty well, better and 1000% than osn> Spamkiller. I haven't tried that yet, but I've had pretty good luck with Norton 2002. It seems to catch everything. osn> Having had problems with the delete command I have lost couple of osn> account and in the process of moving filters I realized that the osn> best strategy is to have the filters as outside files. I'm not sure what you mean by outside files unless you're referring to selective download. I tried that, but decided that I'd rather see everything just to be safe. osn> Today I used to filters only: the SUBJET Filter and the HEADERS osn> Filter. And it is working like hell. I do some text filters as well as some of the spam has the same text in the message body but different subject lines. It does work well and separates The Bat from any of the other email programs I've tried. -- Kevin Coates Dewitt, NY USA _________________________________________________________________ AIM:kbc49 ICQ:2727351 Yahoo/MSM:kbc1949 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html