SPAM PROGRAM

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Jeff Richter

I'm looking for a good spam fighter that would hopefully (maybe) bounce the
messages back to the sender. Frankly anything that is very easy to
configure that I don't have to read my messages at the server would be
great, something with easy to set up rules to block what I don't want but to
let through all the rest. Am getting an enormous amount of penis
patch/enlargement spam that I neither signed up for nor can I unsubscribe as
none of the unsubscribe links are valid. It's really getting to irritate me
and I'm not getting much help from Direcway, my ISP.

Thanks

J Richter
 
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:34:26 GMT

Jeff> I'm looking for a good spam fighter that would hopefully (maybe)
Jeff> bounce the messages back to the sender. Frankly anything that
Jeff> is very easy to configure that I don't have to read my messages
Jeff> at the server would be great, something with easy to set up
Jeff> rules to block what I don't want but to let through all the rest.
Jeff> Am getting an enormous amount of penis patch/enlargement spam
Jeff> that I neither signed up for nor can I unsubscribe as none of
Jeff> the unsubscribe links are valid. It's really getting to
Jeff> irritate me and I'm not getting much help from Direcway, my ISP.

Forget about trying to bounce the spam messages back ... you'd only be contributing to the flotsam on the 'net, as only a small percentage
would actually bounce to the right place, as I understand it. Either
report them manually (via SpamCop, etc.), or forget about that aspect
of it, IMO.

Get a good spam filter in place, such as POPFile (which is Bayesian, and will "learn" what you consider spam or not-spam) or one of the
many others talked about here on a regular basis (search the
archives).

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I'm looking for a good spam fighter that would hopefully (maybe)
bounce the messages back to the sender. Frankly anything that is very
easy to configure that I don't have to read my messages at the server
would be great, something with easy to set up rules to block what I
don't want but to let through all the rest. Am getting an enormous
amount of penis patch/enlargement spam that I neither signed up for
nor can I unsubscribe as none of the unsubscribe links are valid.
It's really getting to irritate me and I'm not getting much help from
Direcway, my ISP.

Thanks

J Richter
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I enjoy Spampal. It is the Windows version of hte insanely popular
Unix/Linux proggie, Spam Assassin. I love and so does my new-B wife.

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I enjoy Spampal. It is the Windows version of hte insanely popular
Unix/Linux proggie, Spam Assassin.
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No, spampal has nothing to do with Spam assassin.



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
No, spampal has nothing to do with Spam assassin.



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
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You are correct, I was thinkg of two entirely different proggies, I do
apologize.

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Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.
Remove yourhat to reply ... but it
may take a while. Best to go to www (dot) mistergeek (dot) com and
reply from there.
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You want K9 to filter out email spam. It is really good, I like it
better than Mail Watcher. It has Bayesian filtering, and regex
filters on To, From, Subject, Body and more headers. Don't bother
bouncing the messages back. It just clogs up the internet with more
junk mail, and it doesn't work anyway.

Do you think if spammers are sending 1000s of unwanted emails that
they will update their lists for addresses which bounce back? No,
they just want a quick buck.

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