Author: Moe Fox
Date: 03:31:08 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 05:41:42, Martin Andersen wrote: >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. Mad Pawn screwed up the Crafty list and a few chess servers with his spam
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