Re: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...

I'm probably in a less common situation -- I get lots of email from people I
don't know (supporting my software and so on). My main concern is that
people looking for help can get through without any hassle.

For me, if the filters "almost never" make a false positive, I still have to
keep looking in them for legit email -- and I find that it's harder to spot
the occasional good email in a big list of spam than it is to spot the spam
in my inbox.

Also, I've noticed that some web-based email services (Hotmail, Yahoo)
append their own mini-spam to the bottom of legit emails, and I've seen some
of those get filtered too.

I'd say that turning off HTML has made it a lot easier -- on the occasions
when I do accidentally open spam, at least they won't know that I did.

I guess that I've made my peace with deleting spam. Used to drive me nuts,
but now I just delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete
delete delete delete.

speak soon,
Scott Matthews
http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda

> Then you really need a SPAM tool like the one in Mozilla/Netscape. I
> almost never have a falsely accused e-mail message (out of 10 active
> accounts). On my heaviest e-mail account (the administrator e-mail for
> a web site I maintain), which gets about 100 SPAM messages a day, I
> don't think I have ever had a real message get pegged. And I do look
> through the SPAM folder each day before deleting it, so I would see any
> valid ones. These new filters are really that good. They learn and
> adapt as time goes on.
>
> Rob
>
> scott@turnstyle.com wrote:
>
> > In my case, the main question isn't how much spam gets past the filter,
but
> > rather how much legit email winds up wrongly filtered as spam.
> >
> > A little while back, my ISP added a spam filter that considered all
email
> > coming from Verizon to be spam (and so half my family couldn't send me
> > email). I prefer to remain unfiltered -- I find that having to
additionally
> > look through a "filtered" folder for false-positives winds up taking me
> > longer than just deleting them.
> >
> > I've grown accustomed to deleting spam/virus emails, but I'm on
broadband
> > and I'm sure it's a much greater hassle over dialup (when I'm on dialup,
I
> > sometimes first use webmail to delete spam, and then POP with my regular
> > client).
> >
> > Lastly, I turn off HTML viewing in my email client -- that can help cut
back
> > on some spam/virus email hassles.
> >
> > speak soon,
> > Scott Matthews
> > http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Colgrove, George" <George.Colgrove@state.vt.us>
> > To: "'Rob Bell'" <RobDBell@netscape.net>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:17 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...
> >
> >
> >
> >>I second Robs Statements. I also use NS 7.1 and am very happy. I once
> >
> > got
> >
> >>over 200 emails a day at the very least! With my ISP providing basic
spam
> >>protection, and Netscape's magic, I get about 5 or 6 spam messages that
I
> >>need to eliminate. My ISP catches about 70%, Netscape usually catches
> >
> > about
> >
> >>90% of the remaining (usually 30 to 40 messages). Considering the work
> >
> > that
> >
> >>is being done, NOT BAD! I am however going to a new ISP to clear away
> >
> > from
> >
> >>so much spam. I will also be upgrading to Mozilla in the future as
well.
> >>
> >>George
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@netscape.net]
> >>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:53 AM
> >>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> >>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...
> >>
> >>I use Netscape v7.1 for all my e-mail accounts (Netscape WebMail,
> >>HotMail, IMAP and POP from ISPs). It does a great job at automatically
> >>identifying and ridding me of those types of SPAM. It is the same SPAM
> >>engine that is within Mozilla (since Netscape is a superset of Mozilla).
> >> If you don't need to access Netscape WebMail then I suggest avoiding
> >>Netscape, which is a dead-end product, and go with Mozilla.
> >>
> >>Rob
> >>
> >>
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Received on Thu Mar 18 14:32:20 2004