Hello Paul Smithson, On or about Friday, February 21, 2003 at 18:00:16GMT +0000 (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, 5:23:51 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 pretty insulted that my genuine e-mails PS> could be filtered out as spam just because I used the symbol PS> of my countries currency (one of the World's major currencies). As a Brit you should have sense enough to simply EXCLUDE that symbol from the list if you wish, and not be 'insulted!' These combinations often show up in headers from Asian spam sites, which is why it is included in the filter. Any user living in a region where any of the symbols may be used, should of course exclude those symbols. This will reduce the effectiveness of the list of symbols though. I also include $ in my spam filter for those who insist on sending me $AVE $$$$$$$$$$ spams too! In your case that would be SAVE £££££££££, which would be equally, but regionally spam'ish. A user in Japan would likely receive SAVE ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥, etc. Example from a recent Asian spam: Subject: ¡m¤@Ó§Y£±N¾î±½½u¤W¹£CÀ¸ªº¤j«¬¹qª±½Ï¥Í¡A¡i¨M¾Ô¡j¹CÀ¸±N©ó12¤ë ¤£¤¶©«±À¥X¡A¦¹¹CÀ¸¦bÁú°£ê¤w¸g±Æ¦W¨ì¤F²Ä1¦W¡A¦b¤¤°ê¤j³°¤w®Ê¤É ±Æ¦W²Ä2¦W£¡C¥Ø«e¦b¥xÆW±N©ó2003¦~¤@¤ë¤¤¥¿¦¡¤£W½u¶}¥ -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike Paying for movies is like paying for sex - if it's free it feels better. /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Using TheBat! v1.62i hamstrung by Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1' -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
