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Subject: Re: Spam Avoidance (OT)

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 12:58:46 09/11/03

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I dont know enough about your hardwired firewall to answer your question.
I employ software firewall rules on applications like 'outlook' because their
preferences are NOT password protected AND an app like outlook is highly
scriptable.using a firewall rule is a surer prophylaxis than setting a
preference in the mailer app, particularly if one considers that the app might
already contain some flavor of benign spyware-- this is getting too off-topic,
sorry.


On September 11, 2003 at 13:53:24, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On September 10, 2003 at 21:47:37, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>no it's not the same. but the effect might be similar if your email does not
>>open browser artifacts that way( which indicates the validity of your email
>>address to the spam sender.)
>>My method relies on the use of software firewalls and assigns rules to the
>>priviledges of different applications, therefore it does not rely on the fact
>>that the designer of any application I use to be honest (eg. different forms of
>>'spyware')
>>
>
>
>So it's not something I can do solely with my Linksys router (hardware
>firewall)?



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