Re: stopping junk email
From: Michael Gray (labrat@pobox.com)
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 16:10:45 -0500
On Sun, 05 Oct 1997 13:07:44 -0400,
mlanders@netcom.com (Mark Landers) wrote this about stopping junk email:
>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.
It's pretty much what I use, but I filter to 'junk' which has a 1 day
expire time. That way if something misaddressed gets through (I'm
STILL looking for the perfect ISP), I'll still be able to read it and
save it to a folder if needed.
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