On 12/29/2013 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:
On 12/30/2013 03:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> In the past, I've emailed friends, and my first or second posting has
>>> gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything about it.
>>
>> I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my email.
>> Why? Because I own my own domain, I use my hosting company's email
>> servers instead of my ISP's and a small number of their customers
>> are spammers. Whenever their spam gets above a certain threshold,
>> her ISP blocks any email access from those servers, and cuts us
>> off. This is why I dislike blacklists: they're just about
>> guaranteed to produce at least 99% false positives because they're
>> just an exercise in throwing the baby out with the bath water.
>
> Well this is all fascinating to me. I'm not using a mail server, just
> trying to keep the size of my Inbox down, since the more spam it gets
> the fatter it gets as well....I will be looking into all
> possibilities regarding this matter. I can now see that the "Allow In
> Just what I want & Block All Others" is the more sensible way to go
> about it...instead of trying to block what seems like millions of
> different email addresses that sometimes have the same email in it.!!
>
>
> EGO II
I don't know if this may help but there is another possibility.
Much of my Inbox spam/annoying garbage emails used similar words such
as BANK, DEAR, Poor Widow, Best quality drugs, FDA approved, and any
emails written in all upper case, and so forth.
I set up 3 filters, Adverts, Scams, Stuff and in those set the
Subject, From, Body and To to Contains, then matched any of those to
regularly occurring 2 or 3 word groups then set Delete from Server
then Send to Trash. I have gone from hundred and more a day to almost
none coming through, any that do are in the trash and are deleted on
exit.
I found, by matching to a small group of words rather than one word
then setting [Match any of the following] it has reduced garbage
emails very significantly.
I do sometimes let the ANZ, Westpac, National bank scams through but
that is so I can report these to Telstra/Bigpond and let them and the
bank handle it.
Occasionally I get scam/spam which after searching seems to come from
a genuine overseas web site. In that case I send the salient part of
the code to the web site admin and let them deal with it.
HTH
Roger
Now THIS sounds more like what I can do!...I mean it's not that I want
it to be perfect, but to have to sift through _so_ many junk mails just
to get to a REAL one?..I sometimes open my email client and sit for 25
minutes or MORE just hitting the "Delete" button! I swear if EVER I find
the person who invented spam?...I'm gonna hit him with a whiffle-ball
bat! LOL!
EGO II