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2002-08-26

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-08-26 11:49 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, I've had someone use my email address/name to spam people with. Very very annoying.

Personally, I fiter stuff by subject in Outlook. If a message contains a word like "Printer Ink" or "Viagra" or anything involving animals & sex, it gets deleted off the server.

Sure, there's a chance someone I know will send me a email with a subject like that, but pretty unlikely (and I likely wouldn't want to read it to begin with).

Posted by Jeremy 2002-08-26 12:50:14|| 2002-08-26 12:50:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Remind me not to mail you from my yahoo address! Seriously, spam is a major annoyance, but I've got some pretty good filters running on my site address. I've also got a 'whitelist' of addresses that always get through, which helps with the occasional badly-titled e-mail.

Posted by Kathy K 2002-08-26 14:16:00|| [site-essential.com] 2002-08-26 14:16:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I use MailWasher and I find it allows me to bounce the spam back right from the server. It seems to work great and its free, or you can pay $20.00 and get life-time upgrade. I think it is well worth the $20 bucks.

The address is
http://www.mailwasher.net/

I think it will do the job you want.

Jack

Posted by Jack Bross 2002-08-26 14:59:27|| [www.achievergroup.com/default.asp] 2002-08-26 14:59:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I like Jack Bross's suggestion - I've been getting lots of spam from Nigerian scam artists lately, and I just pasted a standard rejection header back at them, though they might be smart enough to figure it's from me, not my provider.

Not that Nigerians sam at all - just lots of fake $100 bills I saw myself at the World Cup at foxboro, MA back in 1994. Nothing to see here.

Posted by Raj 2002-08-26 20:54:36|| 2002-08-26 20:54:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I've got a suggestion, Fred. Try this Outlook plug-in!

Posted by Joe Katzman 2002-08-26 23:25:36|| [www.windsofchange.net/] 2002-08-26 23:25:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Iâ using a plug-in for Outlook Spam Bully, it's a Bayesian spam filter and it works almost perfect for me.
The way SpamBully for OE works is that it views your current email folders' contents and learns from that to help distinguish between spam and regular emails.
Also it has a lot of great features such as Friends/Spammers lists, email blocking by country/language, Allow/Block words and phrases, attachment blockingâ¦

Posted by Rick Johns 2004-06-25 7:37:02 AM|| 2004-06-25 7:37:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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