I haven't noticed any spam from the MG list. Actually I no longer get much
spam but that is mostly because my Internet service provider offers us a
filter through postini that gets rid of most spam before it makes it to my
mail.
I did use Eudora's filters for a while to filter messages using certain
keywords. I also have a filter that takes all my MG list email and puts it
in a "MG" mailbox so it is all together. In Eudora, under their filters I
have set to search for mgs@autox.team.net under <<Any headers>> Or <<Any
recipients>> and direct it to my MG mailbox. I also have several other
filters that look at the subject line for keywords (money, montage, viagra)
and send them straight to the trash bin but they were only partially
effective. Perhaps the trick may just to be to set up individual mailboxes
and filter legitimate email to them and leave the inbox to trap the spam.
However, whether you do that or use a service like postini, you still have
to occasionally sort through the 90%+ spam to get out legitimate messages.
I have had this same email address for almost ten years now and since I run
an Internet-based software company, I am sure that I am on just about every
spam list there is. And I get roughly 50-150 spam email messages a day,
almost all captured by postini.
David Councill
67 BGT
72 B
At 12:38 PM 6/6/2004 -0700, Barrie Robinson wrote:
>Despite having been in the computer business for 35 years I am still a
>neophyte when it comes to PCs and the Web. I got 483 spams this week-end
>and I am seriously considering stopping the MGB/MGB V8 list because I just
>cannot face these massive spam attacks. However, I understand that one
>can set up a filter so that email with certain subject titles can be
>routed to a specific mailbox. Is it possible that we all use a prefix
>such as MGB, so our subjects would look like this "MGB - Anti-freeze
>poisoning", "MGB - Anyone have a crank for sale" - These would then be
>siphoned off away from spam.
>
>I await words of wisdom from those who know how !!
>
>Regards
>Barrie
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