IMHO, The only good spam control is one that is customized. One that
learns as you receive email. For some people, the want to receive emails
about "Direct Marketing." Others want "Stock Alerts" or "Travel News."
Filtering on a single word is not the way to do it. It takes running a
correlation coefficient with each word, looking at who is sending the
email, and more.
If you have to use Outlook Express, use something like SpamBayes. If you
have to use Outlook, have your network admin select a spam tool.
Something that can tell the difference between Spam and Ham.
PS. Thunderbird has this type of Spam tool built right in.
PSS. In Ohio, as in most states, spammers are liable for $250 for each
spam they send. Anyone feel like developing a tool that can really trace
the spam to its source (look beyond the headers). If so, I think we
should partner with a lawyer and start a new business.
Bill Brister wrote:
I realize they need constant updating. Mine gets updated by Microsoft Update
whenever they have one. Apparently Microsoft is way behind the spammers
right now.
Bill Brister
Houston, TX
----- Original Message -----
From: Al Stewart
To: CRTech
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: [CRTech] junk mail filter broken
Junk filters need constant updating ... spammers keep changing their words
and spellings and collections of radom words to get by the filters.
------ At 10:39 AM 12/05/2006 -0600, Bill Brister wrote: -------
>Same problem here. I use the filter that comes with Outlook and it seems
>more and more junk mail is getting through to the inbox now. The spammers
>might have found a way to overide the filters temporarily.
>
>Bill Brister
>Houston, TX
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Todd [mailto:stodd@kkms.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:53 AM
>To: CRTech
>Subject: [CRTech] junk mail filter broken
>
>Thought I'd ask those on this list who are using Thunderbird about this
>first before I end up going through an hours long search and read on
>their website. My junk mail filter isn't filtering anymore. Today I
>had over 800 messages (accumulated from last Friday night) and only 32
>of them legitimate email but I was left to do the deleting. Anyone know
>why this might have occurred? I've checked the filter controls and
>everything seems to be set OK.
>
>Scott Todd
>
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