Re: Spam filters

From: Hans Nelisse (hneel@xs4all.nl)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:47:10 +0100

kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz (Kerry Sainsbury) wrote:
>Hi Team,
>
>Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'm trying to extend Yarn's filtering
>ability.
>
>I'm continually being bombarded with MLM "opportunties" which
>I'd like to filter into oblivion. Yarn's built-in filtering doesn't
>let me setup *lots* of "spam" addresses (I'd like to filter based on
>keywords in the message content), so I figure there might be
>something else available to me....

It's better to filter on your own address instead of the spammer
addresses. I filter anything that hasn't a "To: hneel@xs4all.nl" line
in the header (and doesn't belong to a mailing-list either) to the 'junk'
folder.

Actually, I hacked yarn.exe a bit so that 'junk' is now the default folder
for email, and i added a filter for personal mail to 'inbox'.
But I think it should also be possible without hacking, by adding a filter
that moves everything to 'junk'. The filter program aplies the filters in
alphabetical order.

Hans

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