stopping junk email

From: Mark Landers (mlanders@netcom.com)
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 13:07:44 -0400

I don't know if this method of stopping junk email has been mentioned
here before but it's something I stumbled across and it seems to work
better than anything else I've tried. I'm using Yarn 0.92 for DOS.

99% of commercial mail is sent to a dummy address; the bulk email
programs all use the Bcc: field to mail thousands of copies without
having to write individual emails to each recipient. The Yarn filter
program processes alphabetically, so:

filter name: b
search for: mlanders
in To:
send to folder/newsgroup: INBOX

filter name: z
search for: @
in To:
send to folder/newsgroup: junk
(this last will be changed to delete as soon as I'm sure it's working
right)

catches everything not addressed to me.

Filters for digests, which are To: mlanders, start with "a" (so they
don't get sent to INBOX), filters for mailing lists are "c" to "y".

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