"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
On 18/12/05 21:09, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:

The message k
from Sacha contains these words:

Today, I have received around 80 pieces of junk mail. My junk mail
filter
catches most of it very well but I still have to check it, of course.
Most
days, the number is something between 30 and 50. Is this because
Gardenbanter is reproducing posts from urg or is there some other
explanation?

Your address isn't appearing there in public view, because GB strips
off all usenet attributions, so the OP's email addie isn't visible, and
leaves just the posting name. This exchange of posts would just appear
as "Sacha, usenet (Today I...etc)" and a reply from "Janet Baraclough,
usenet ". Course, there's no guarantee what GB does with all the
prunings :-(

Could the upturn be the result of xmas shopping by computer?

For Viagra and Cialis - and cheap, fake watches and dodgy shares? I hope
not or this will certainly be a Christmas to remember!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)

"Hugh Jampton" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Yep - brilliant !

Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

I have it too and no longer worry about junk mail, it still arrives but is
deleted at source and the new pro version has colour coding so you can see
at a glance what's what and it sorts the list and puts stuff in order of how
friendly it thinks it is so there are normally very few to check manually.
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

Sacha wrote:

Today, I have received around 80 pieces of junk mail. My junk mail filter
catches most of it very well but I still have to check it, of course. Most
days, the number is something between 30 and 50. Is this because
Gardenbanter is reproducing posts from urg or is there some other
explanation?

It is more likely that your email address has been compromised
elsewhere. If you can use a range of email addresses with throw away
ones for untrustworthy correspondents (including Usenet). Then you can
block them as and when it becomes necessary.

Searching for your email address in Google can be enlightening.

I'd be grateful to know of the experiences and opinions of
others on urg.

The last time Usenet posting history was a serious liability was when
Swen infections were at their height. I had to do something serious when
my inbox exceeded 1GB of viral junk mail.

If it is any consolation a few of the dodgy watch ones are getting
through to me. The rest bounce off former usenet and email ID's unread.

Regards,
Martin Brown

On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls, or
stock market tips!! What a plethora of real junk there is 'out there'.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Alan Holmes wrote:
If you are getting lots of spam for specific items, it is possible to block
the headers.

The senders are a bit crafty and try to get around junk mail filters by
various mispellings - e.g. Viagra becomes \/iagra (just one of many
variants). It's a real pain.

"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls, or
stock market tips!! What a plethora of real junk there is 'out there'.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)


Certainly meant as a compliment. Fortunately you seem able to rise above the
garbage that gets dumped on you but I know several people who can't cope
with it and it makes their enjoyment and usage of the internet very
difficult.

Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:


http://www.mailwasher.net/


Yep - brilliant !

Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.

I find Spampal pretty good (assuming people are using Windows). Another
good option, I find, is to use Mozilla Thunderbird which has spam
filtering built in (also avoids various insecure features of MS products).

"Hugh Jampton" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Yep - brilliant !

Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

It is an excellent product. The only criticism is that it allows you to
bounce spam back to the sender which used to be the default setting.
Replying to spam is not advisable as it just confirms your email addy as
correct.

In message , Ian
Keeling writes
Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:

http://www.mailwasher.net/
Yep - brilliant !
Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.

I find Spampal pretty good (assuming people are using Windows). Another
good option, I find, is to use Mozilla Thunderbird which has spam
filtering built in (also avoids various insecure features of MS
products).

If you're on broadband, Popfile is pretty good. It's an 'intelligent'
program, learning what sort of content denotes spam, looking our for the
sorts of words and phrases that are more likely to be spam than genuine.
It makes a bash at sorting into spam and non-spam, and gets it about 80%
right, then you correct the few it got wrong, and in a matter of a day
or two it's up to 99% or better and you can leave it to its own devices.

You don't have to add rules to block specific posters or title contents.
It allows you to add rules, but the main use of those is to direct mails
into specific boxes, eg your 'work' box, your 'emails from urglers' box,
or to allow posts from trusted friends to drop straight in to your inbox
without being screened.


--
Kay

In message , Sacha
writes
On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls, or
stock market tips!! What a plethora of real junk there is 'out there'.


You forgot the Nigerian statesman trying to put a few hundred thousand
in you bank account!

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls,

You can forward the 'hot dates' emails to me!(:-)

Alan

On 19/12/05 12:14, in article , "Kay
Easton" wrote:

In message , Ian
Keeling writes
Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:

http://www.mailwasher.net/
Yep - brilliant !
Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.

I find Spampal pretty good (assuming people are using Windows). Another
good option, I find, is to use Mozilla Thunderbird which has spam
filtering built in (also avoids various insecure features of MS
products).

If you're on broadband, Popfile is pretty good. It's an 'intelligent'
program, learning what sort of content denotes spam, looking our for the
sorts of words and phrases that are more likely to be spam than genuine.
It makes a bash at sorting into spam and non-spam, and gets it about 80%
right, then you correct the few it got wrong, and in a matter of a day
or two it's up to 99% or better and you can leave it to its own devices.

You don't have to add rules to block specific posters or title contents.
It allows you to add rules, but the main use of those is to direct mails
into specific boxes, eg your 'work' box, your 'emails from urglers' box,
or to allow posts from trusted friends to drop straight in to your inbox
without being screened.


Can I use any of these on a Mac, using Entourage?

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

On 19/12/05 12:43, in article ,
"Klara" wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls, or
stock market tips!! What a plethora of real junk there is 'out there'.


You forgot the Nigerian statesman trying to put a few hundred thousand
in you bank account!

I haven't had one of those for ages. I'm almost hurt and feeling
neglected....but not quite. ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

On 19/12/05 14:07, in article ,
"Alan Holmes" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
On 19/12/05 0:21, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:

snip

Viagra for you?? Take that as a compliment. Someone (somewhere) is
suggesting you got more balls than the men around here. :-)


I'm not at all sure what reply to make to that but I'll take it as a
compliment. ;-) However, while I don't need Viagra, nor do I need cheap
watches, Cialis, 'hot dates' with bored housewives or college girls,

You can forward the 'hot dates' emails to me!(:-)

Alan

'allo 'allo, someone's been at the mincepies and sherry. ;-))

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
On 19/12/05 12:14, in article , "Kay
Easton" wrote:

In message , Ian
Keeling writes
Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:43 GMT, Phil L wrote:

http://www.mailwasher.net/
Yep - brilliant !
Wouldn't be without it. The Pro version is well worth paying for.

I find Spampal pretty good (assuming people are using Windows). Another
good option, I find, is to use Mozilla Thunderbird which has spam
filtering built in (also avoids various insecure features of MS
products).

If you're on broadband, Popfile is pretty good. It's an 'intelligent'
program, learning what sort of content denotes spam, looking our for the
sorts of words and phrases that are more likely to be spam than genuine.
It makes a bash at sorting into spam and non-spam, and gets it about 80%
right, then you correct the few it got wrong, and in a matter of a day
or two it's up to 99% or better and you can leave it to its own devices.

You don't have to add rules to block specific posters or title contents.
It allows you to add rules, but the main use of those is to direct mails
into specific boxes, eg your 'work' box, your 'emails from urglers' box,
or to allow posts from trusted friends to drop straight in to your inbox
without being screened.


Can I use any of these on a Mac, using Entourage?

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

There is a special Mac flavour of Mailwasher here
http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustma..._maclinux.html