Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 02:41:42 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 05:28:32, Peter Fendrich wrote: >I think you all are as annoyed as I am about all this spam filling my inbox. >I have used 3 different email adresses over time in this forum. >The first email adress I used was "infected" from start. >The second one was used here only and was never mentioned anywhere else until I >begun to get spam. >The third one has never been used anywhere else than in this forum and now I >receive a considerable amount of spam. >It is not possible to automatically find these adresses with spider technique >because the forum is password protected - you have to sign up before reading it. >The addresses must have been catched by someone in this forum - right? >Maybe there is some mirror somewhere? >Any similar experiences? > >/Peter I admit it, I have sold your e-mail adresses ! :-) Seriously, spam is a problem, and almost impossible to avoid. I have learned to live with it by using free spam filtering software. It works like this: You create a folder called Junk in the e-mail program, where all the spam goes. Then you train the software for a few spam, so it can learn to distinguish real mail from spam. So when you check for mail, it automatically filter the spam into the Junk folder. These mails will not be deleted before you tell it to, so you can check for false positives, although they are very rare. I think I have had 1 false positive amongst several thousand spams. The spam-filter is very effective, currently I have 289 spams in my Junk folder, recieved in a period of 7 days. The Mozilla browser and e-mail klient can be found at www.mozilla.org. Martin.
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