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Posted by Kirsty Wursty on August 24, 2009, 7:36 am
I can barely see the real posts for the spam. I have blocked the senders
and sender domain but that doesn't help. These keep changing. I am using
Windows mail and have Vista.
Kirsten
ps- I miss you guys!
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Posted by The Wanderer on August 24, 2009, 8:49 am
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:36:56 +0200, Kirsty Wursty wrote:
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> I can barely see the real posts for the spam. I have blocked the senders
> and sender domain but that doesn't help. These keep changing. I am using
> Windows mail and have Vista.
>
> Kirsten
> ps- I miss you guys!
A lot of spam comes from Google groups. Kill fime anything with message ID
googlegroups. It does mean you might miss one or two genuine posts but in
my book anyone who understands usenet should recognise that that GG is a
PITA and use a proper news server and client.
--
Richard
I may be stupid, but I don't have to prove it!
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Posted by Joy Beeson on August 24, 2009, 11:41 pm
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:49:23 +0100, The Wanderer
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> It does mean you might miss one or two genuine posts
If you use "mark read" rather than "delete", it will be easy to fish
genuine messages out of the wastebasket. Using "mark read" also
allows you to see that a message is a reply to a malicious message, so
that you needn't waste time opening it.
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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
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Posted by The Wanderer on August 25, 2009, 2:19 am
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:41:14 -0400, Joy Beeson wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:49:23 +0100, The Wanderer
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>> It does mean you might miss one or two genuine posts
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> If you use "mark read" rather than "delete", it will be easy to fish
> genuine messages out of the wastebasket. Using "mark read" also
> allows you to see that a message is a reply to a malicious message, so
> that you needn't waste time opening it.
We-ell, actually I do use mark-read but I also have my news reader set only
to show new unread messages - it helps to preserve threads.
I still rarely bother reading 'genuine' posts that have originted from GG.
It just ain't the way to access usenet. There are plenty of low cost or
free news servers, and plenty of news reading progs out there.
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Richard
Trying to extract useful information from the Internet
is like trying to sip from a firehose.
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Posted by Lizzy Taylor on August 24, 2009, 9:16 am
Kirsty Wursty wrote:
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> I can barely see the real posts for the spam. I have blocked the
> senders and sender domain but that doesn't help. These keep changing.
> I am using Windows mail and have Vista.
I read using Mozilla Thunderbird and rather than killfile (filter)
entire addresses I only use parts of them and then they tend to work for
longer.
e.g. if "from" contains "chinawholesale" ignore thread
if "from" contains "126.com" ignore thread
this approach also works well for me for filtering out some of the
really nasty messages before I see them.
HTH
Lizzy
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> and sender domain but that doesn't help. These keep changing. I am using
> Windows mail and have Vista.
>
> Kirsten
> ps- I miss you guys!