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Subject: Re: Someone in this forum is selling email addresses (OT)

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 03:48:26 09/10/03

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>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.

Of course I have spam filters but I can't say that they are as effective as you
claim. Maybe it's Outlook that sucks in this respect...
It's not as easy as before to compose those rules by yourself - the subject just
doesn't tell and the text body is build up by some random characters and an
image with the real message.
During 14 days I have about 100 mails automatically moved to my Junk mail folder
but it should be about 300. The other 200 mails I have to move myself.
/Peter




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