Re: [APML] OT: porm spam flood

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

There are lots of e-mail filters available for the home user. 
A simple approach might be to select an e-mail address that is 
only for whatever list servers you are subscribed to, and filter 
incoming mail on that address to dump directly into trash everything 
except e-mail from those list servers.  You'll be OK unless Gene 
decides to go into the Viagra business!

My SF Bay Area ISP provides user tailorable filters for SPAM and 
also filters all e-mail for viruses. They dump the spam into a "Graymail"
folder which allows the user to peruse the message subject and
senders name for messages which shouldn't have been dumped, 
and transfer any of those to  their e-mail box.  The undesired stuff 
never gets to your computer. According to my ISP, over 80 percent
of their incoming e-mail is spam. (Oh--they also still offer a Unix
Shell option for true nerds).

More and more ISP's are starting to incorporate features like this.
but I don't think these options exist on freebie accounts like Hotmail.
Hmmm--wonder why?!

Steve

At 09:31 AM 12/19/03 -0800, Richard wrote:
>
>>
>> The anti-spam legislation sounds like a good thing..but it isn't really
>> going to help all that much, all they need do is source it out of the
>> country.
>
>
>Maybe this is a dumb idea but if it is hard to determine where the spam
>originates, would it be possibly a reasonable approach to prosecute those
>companies that pay for the spamming? Surely those companies that are trying
>to sell me viagra, penis enlargement kits and all the rest of the junk must
>be paying the spammers right? I haven't clicked through to see where the
>links in the spam take me, but it does seem that the target would be
>identifiable and if targeted for prosecution and or retaliatory spamming,
>would cut off the air from the spammers, no?
>
>rdc
>
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