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OT. new antispam laws in the US
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:22:03 +0000, David
wrote: In article , martin writes So how do you account for the fact that we now receive no spam on that mail box? I don't know, unless something else has changed but it is a fact that the spammers don't send from valid addresses (unless they're using an unsuspecting host) they really *don't* see any replies (bounced or otherwise). The bit about they only use valid email addresses, well, they would say that anyway wouldn't they When the huge increase in junk started a while back I set up the rejection rules to bounce most of it but it's still coming, 138 rejected this morning with 7 getting through, I'm continually reviewing the rules to fine tune. One of the most popular addresses is which is an easy one to block, I reject anything from aol and yahoo plus a few smaller ones and unrecognised email names. I must admit there is a small amount of satisfaction is seeing stuff bounced, is that sad? Don't Demon offer a spam tagging service David? How does that work Martin? I've had a text chat with them and they didn't mention it, they suggested bouncing or deleting but were very sorry there was nothing they could do... Some ISPs have software that identifies 99.999% of spam. The ISP inserts ***SPAM*** in front of the subject. On your PC you set up a filter to either store ***SPAM*** messages in a folder, until you are confident that they don't mark good messages as spam. Later if you like you can filter ***SPAM***messages to be deleted directly. At work all SPAM is removed before we see it, so we have no way of knowing if we sometimes lose messages. Some ISPs seem a bit reluctant to publicise this option. I pay a euro a month extra for it. Clara, Gradwell and BTopenworld are amongst the UK ISPs that offer Spam tagging. In NL Planet and Wanadoo both offer the service. Demon appears to believe that Spam tagging is not possible http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/spam/index.shtml "Why doesn't Demon filter my email messages for UCE? Filtering email, to discard the unwanted junk, often sounds like an attractive option and indeed some people find that systems installed on their own machines and tweaked for their own situation can work very well. However, there are very significant challenges in setting up a centralised system for a customer base as diverse as Demon's and providing assurances that no-one's legitimate email will be discarded by mistake. We are also mindful that filtering is essentially a stop-gap solution and that the "spammers" are already modifying their material to make it harder and harder to distinguish from legitimate email. To fight back, filters become more and more "fuzzy" and this increases the risk of blocking the email that our customers want to receive. Demon has investigated email blocking solutions and at present we do not believe that we could offer a general system that would be suitable for customers. However, this is not a final judgement, and we will continue to monitor what is available as systems are improved and updated." Perhaps it's time for Demon users to put pressure on Demon to do a real investigation. -- Martin |
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