Dealing with Spam

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:38:35 +0100, Blair wrote:

Thanks. Someone is suggesting that certain ISPs require you to have a proper
address with an addition for security. Would this apply to Wanadoo?

Blair, if it is a requirement of your news service, it would be listed in
their FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) or in their Terms of Service. And
it would only apply using their servers.

The MS servers are free. You may use your ISP to go online but you are
interacting directly with the MS news servers when you subscribe to them.
Subscribing is a simple matter of setting them up in your news reader and
you are allowed to mung your address.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

does your ISP have a "tagging" service where it tags the spam, to make it
easy for you to filter the junk?

My isp has a service where it tags messages with "[iispam]" so I just say in
my filters "With all messages containing [iispam] in Subject Line, Delete
it" I still get the spam but it's easier just to hit the delete key because
I know which is spam and which isn't.



"Blair" wrote in message
...

I used to have Mailwasher which did delete all the Spam but I found that I
had about 100 per day and Mailwasher had to deal with this but it took
time
and I had to check to see if any of my legitimate mail was included.
I then changed my address, discontinued Mailwasher and had a year without
any Spam until recently.
I am concerned if I go back to Mailwasher I might get a lot more Spam
Blair


"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
...
It works, except the spammer uses a system to alter their
sending address, by-passing the simple block. You need a
proper mail scanning program that looks at the sender,
subject and even the content of the email and sorts it into
folders. Looks for "spam filters" on Google.


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"Blair" wrote in message
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| Because I was receiving a large amount of Spam (I stupidly
had my proper
| email address in News groups) I decided to change my email
address and in
| the case of news groups I read that I should add the word
"invalid" after my
| email address.
| For the last year I received no Spam at all until recently
I have been
| getting on or two messages about my bank account and my
password sent to my
| correct email address.
| It looks as though someone has a system of deleting the
word "invalid" and
| getting my email address.
| What I would like to know is how should I have disguised
my email address to
| avoid this?
| Finally I noticed that in Outlook Express there is a
facility of blocking
| the sender, which I have used. Does this facility work?
|
| Blair
|
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