Hi Randall:
On Saturday I was talking with a visitor who edits a blog called "Boing Boing"
and bitching to him about spam. I'm having trouble filtering down to below 40
junk mails a day. He laughed and said he's at 20,000 a day on his official
email address. That made me feel a little better although I am still tired of
getting various porno e-mails with links to various virus installers. Sometimes
I think caning should be revived for these fools.
However, the sad truth is that spammistas are like guerrillas; you can only
fight them by cutting off their source of money. In this case it's advertising
and IP. There are an amazing number of companies willing to buy advertising
space, or stolen identity data from the spammers. Until that practice stops,
the spam won't either.
Cheers,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Randall
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:37 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: getting the cart before the horse, no lbc
> I find that sometimes my spam controls send list messages to my
> trash folder. I'll find the original message there. I used to
> delete trash without checking...now I check.
FWIW, I use rules to move all my list mail to a separate folder, which does
not get scanned for spam. (M$ Outlook handles this by adding "stop
processing rules" to the actions list.)
I also gave up on a "content based" spam filter ... the spammers are getting
very good at slipping messages past them and what good is a filter where you
have to read through the piles of spam anyway. Now I only filter on what IP
domain it came through last, which is about 75% successful at eliminating
spam.
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