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From: Doug Barnard (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 14:10:15 EST
> [mailto:] On Behalf
> Of Rick H Kennerly
> We were gone 10 days and when I checked-in my e-mail account had 610
> messages in it, all but 35 were SPAM.
My domain host uses a utility called Spam Assassin, which I turned on at
the control panel level. This is a cool system that tests email content
by criteria (certain spam words, lines of shouting, known spammer,
etc.). The suspected spam shows up looking like this:
****SPAM***** Order Viagra, Diet Pills, and other drugs online!
Your host has to implement it, not you. More info:
http://spamassassin.org/index.html
I then set Outlook XP to place the message into a folder called Spam.
This gets about 98% of the spam. For those few that wiggle through,
Cloudmark's SpamNet (http://www.cloudmark.com/) will add the sender to
the blacklist. It was written by the same guys as SpamAssassin. Every
few days, I'll peruse the Spam folder to make sure there aren't any
false positives- typically there aren't. If your host is uncooperative
with the SpamAssassin thing, you might try changing hosts. This thing
works!
An aside:
It seemed like it used to be that vast majority of the spam that I
received was sexual in nature. Now, it's for more "legit" items, more
like junk snail mail. Are all of the folks out there with enhanced
genitalia now interested in life insurance and refinancing their homes?
Did the spammers selling the bizarre porn sites make millions and
retire? Maybe some rich martial-arts guy got fed up, and went to the
homes of spammers and beat the living daylights out of each them in turn
(my fantasy, inspired by "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"). We can only
hope!
Doug Barnard
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Selling the house
Buying a boat
Sailing to Paradise
Figuring things out from there
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