A spamthing we can use?

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Wed May 18 13:14:27 EDT 2005


hmm.  That is a way, how do you get mail from anyone new and how do you
filterout mail which appears to be from an address but is not?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: ".dan." <ddunfee at city-net.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:21 AM
Subject: A spamthing we can use?


>
> One approach is the white list.  Instead of using the never ending approach
> of finding and always adding to filters looking for possible spam content,
> the white list takes the oppisite approach.  Set up a filter that looks for
> mail you know you want and exclude everything else.  This is easy to do
> using pine's filter functions.  For example, one says to keep any mail
> containing an address also in one's addressbook, all else is either deleted
> or moved to a seperate file.  My spam fell to 0 using this in pine.  There
> is considerable more detail that can make it work easily, but the
> addressbook is one example.
>
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