Saturday, December 13, 2003, 1:03:07 AM, you wrote: JJ> As I posted before in the TBOT list, I find that it tends to work JJ> less, because spammers are learning to disguise the words. How does JJ> software identify words like pen1s, viag/ra and its unlimited JJ> variations, that all readers identify?
I was able to build a pretty successful black list simply by using the offending ip addresses; this didn't get rid of the yahoo/msn/hotmail offerings, but it reduced my spam by a considerable amount. I've never gotten any legitimate mail from China, South America or Spain, but a high percentage of my spam mail actually originated in those places. If my correspondence expands to embrace those places I'll have to amend my list, perhaps, but in the meantime ... What's more worrying is that my old isp took to 'identifying' spam; unfortunately his ID's included most of my legitimate commercial subscriptions .. and my new one wants to do the same, and is willing to dump them before they ever get to my mailbox ... he has an off switch for this useful gadget, but I clearly need to identify my *own* spam, not someone elses version of same. Aren't you thrilled that we now have anti-spam laws? <sarcasm/off> Lynn -- TheBat 1.62r Win2kPro SP2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * Aun Aprendo I'd rather be WARP'ed * * * Team OS/2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
