OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

[eorg]

really good e-mail client - 30 days trial http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html

[DavidG]

Have you checked if your ISP can filter spam? I have mine do that although it only gets about 75% of the crap. I get the rest with a program call Mail Washer which can automatically delete spam.

Personally I hope you have some success with #3. These guys really piss me off. I mean if some guy came up to some kids on the street and showed them a porn mag how quick would he be hauled off to jail?? But somehow it's OK to do that on the net.

[Ruatha]

Oops, DavidG beat me to it. (Never leave the computer while typing and then return later to finish it....)

There is a program called mailwasher that exists in a free Version.
Ther you can have working filters, both what to let through and what to filter, and that wich is filtered you can bounce back so to give the impression that your e-mail adress isn't valid, all this can be done automaticly.
You can pre-view all mail before you let it come into the Outlook in-box and decide what should be filtered and what shall be let through.

I started having problems this spring with some spam and e-mail viruses being sent to me (Don't know why) and installed mailwasher, and now I haven't received either during the summer.
But I also do use resstriction with my e-mail, almost never give it away on any sites, only SE4 sites so far...

Good luck.

http://www.mailwasher.net/

[ August 09, 2003, 15:04: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Mathias_Ice]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Hey Mathais... Disney never was what you though it was as a child.

Just think about what you said.

When you were a child you could trust them

Uh, huh?

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

quote:

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Originally posted at cnsnews.com: "This isn't an issue of discrimination; it's an issue of discernment. Homosexuality definitely is a social disorder. It is not genetic, it is acquired," Sheldon said

LOL.
Age isn't genetic... its acquired.
So its okay to discriminate against old/young/etc people too?

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If something can be aquired, it can also be avoided. Show me someone who avoids age.

[eorg]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
If something can be aquired, it can also be avoided. Show me someone who avoids age.

no but one can avoid race - see michael jackson :-P

seriously - the idea is that age is not generic - and to make general conclusions about people is plain stupidity like the person i know says 'all arabs are terrorists' :-)

[eorg]

also - maybe michael jackson fights spam too

[Gryphin]

One difficult way:
Create rules to keep the specific sourses you do want.
Then have your friends put a key phrase on the subject line.
Everything else gets sent to trash.