On 12/29/2013 11:59 PM, Roger wrote:
On
12/30/2013 03:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote:
In the past, I've emailed friends, and
my first or second posting has
gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything
about it.
I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my
email. Why? Because I own my own domain, I use my hosting
company's email servers instead of my ISP's and a small number
of their customers are spammers. Whenever their spam gets
above a certain threshold, her ISP blocks any email access
from those servers, and cuts us off. This is why I dislike
blacklists: they're just about guaranteed to produce at least
99% false positives because they're just an exercise in
throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Well this is all fascinating to me. I'm not using a mail server,
just trying to keep the size of my Inbox down, since the more
spam it gets the fatter it gets as well....I will be looking
into all possibilities regarding this matter. I can now see that
the "Allow In Just what I want & Block All Others" is the
more sensible way to go about it...instead of trying to block
what seems like millions of different email addresses that
sometimes have the same email in it.!!
EGO II
I don't know if this may help but there is another possibility.
Much of my Inbox spam/annoying garbage emails used similar words
such as BANK, DEAR, Poor Widow, Best quality drugs, FDA approved,
and any emails written in all upper case, and so forth.
I set up 3 filters, Adverts, Scams, Stuff and in those set the
Subject, From, Body and To to Contains, then matched any of those
to regularly occurring 2 or 3 word groups then set Delete from
Server then Send to Trash. I have gone from hundred and more a day
to almost none coming through, any that do are in the trash and
are deleted on exit.
I found, by matching to a small group of words rather than one
word then setting [Match any of the following] it has reduced
garbage emails very significantly.
I do sometimes let the ANZ, Westpac, National bank scams through
but that is so I can report these to Telstra/Bigpond and let them
and the bank handle it.
Occasionally I get scam/spam which after searching seems to come
from a genuine overseas web site. In that case I send the salient
part of the code to the web site admin and let them deal with it.
HTH
Roger
Now THIS sounds more like what I can do!...I mean it's not that I
want it to be perfect, but to have to sift through so many
junk mails just to get to a REAL one?..I sometimes open my email
client and sit for 25 minutes or MORE just hitting the "Delete"
button! I swear if EVER I find the person who invented spam?...I'm
gonna hit him with a whiffle-ball bat! LOL!
EGO II
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