printer ink (im)permanence?

[Nancy S]

Some mail programs have a built in filter to which you could just add some identifiers of that unsolicited mail and not be bothered with it anymore.

[Bert Bigelow]

Some mail programs have a built in filter to which you could just add
some identifiers of that unsolicited mail and not be bothered with it
anymore.




My experience is that the filters are almost useless. The spammers change their "from" address frequently. So if you block Email from "spammer12635", tomorrow it will be from "spammer12367" and the filter will ignore it. Some filters look for keywords, and if you can anticipate what the spam or virus message will say, which is almost impossible....

[Nancy S]

Bert,

Perhaps I misunderstood the problem...I thought people were receiving multiple instances of a bogus Microsoft update.

Nancy

[Schraven Robert]

Nancy,

That is true. However I have received some from microsoft security centre and microsoft upgrade centre.
So in this case one message would be stopped but the other would have gotten through.

It seems to wind down. Yesterday evening I checked and my mailbox was only half full (1.6Mb) after a whole day. Quite a lot down from the day before when I had to delete 6 Mb.

Robert

[Bert Bigelow]

I got my first Microsoft "update" notice today. Because of the warnings I read here, I deleted it immediately. Thanks to you all!
Bert

[Leen Koper]

Is there a way of blocking messages that have particular words in the header? I would love to enter the words Microsoft, Viagra, enlargement, mortgage, etc. Over 90% of my mail can be trashed nowadays.

Leen

[Leen Koper]

Back to the spraying of images.

In the old days, for a particular client, I sometimes had to spray glossy images with some Kodak spray to an almost matte surface. They preferred this over matte prints and I still don't understand why. I still seem to remember this spray protected from UV light, although they used these images just only for a few weeks.
Maybe this spray would work on inkjetprints as well.
BTW: when we ran out of this spray and Kodak couldnot deliver in time, we used some hairspray with exactly the same result.(and a lot more profit.I happened to know on chalk drawings you apply a fixer that can be replaced easily by hairspray as well.)

I still remember this was rather expensive; unfortunately I don't remeber the name.

Leen

[Bert Bigelow]

Is there a way of blocking messages that have particular words in the
header?




Most spam filters work that way. AOL supposedly filters my mail with a very sophisticated filter. They claim that block 70-80 percent. My spam traffic does seem to have gone down lately. But I still get a dozen or so a day. Still annoying.
Bert

[Chuck Snyder]

The sources of the virus-laden mailings of this week keep changing the
titles and 'from' with each new blast - I gave up on writing enough rules to
knock 'em out. Fortunately, my ISP is 'cleansing' them before notifying me
that they had received the bad stuff...

Chuck

[Dave Hamer]

Leen

>Is there a way of blocking messages that have particular words in the header? I would love to enter the words Microsoft, Viagra, enlargement, mortgage, etc. Over 90% of my mail can be trashed nowadays.
>

You can apply filters in your browser to eliminate such but the problem
has now become that what we think are actual words are graphics and the
filtering can no longer catch such things. Everytime we find a solution,
those bad guys discover another way around.

Dave

[Barbara Brundage]

Bert, I really wonder about aol's supposed filters. I have an aol account, and my aol mailboxes are constantly full to the brim with spam, whereas my "real" accounts average about one piece of spam per day for all three accounts, and that's with no filters at all on the server. I will say I never did get the Nigerian dictator spam at aol, though.

[Bert Bigelow]

Barb,
All I can say for sure about AOL's filters is that MY spam has decreased significantly in the last month or so. I report every single spam that I get. Maybe that has made a difference, dunno.
And I HAVE gotten the Nigerian Scam a couple times, although not recently. I thought it was pretty funny, the way it was written to sound..."African", I guess, with quaint phrasing. Most Africans I have met speak the King's English very well, so it was really an obvious scam.
Bert

[MLWHEELER]

We use the MailWasher program and are happy with it. As well as the default settings you add your own filter settings in either the address, subject or message body. You eliminate the messages offering great mortgage rates, enlarge body parts, perscriptions, etc, etc.
As someone also mentioned you view your messages prior to receiving them in your email program. You need to watch so you don't miss emails you want.
Download free and try out for a month before buying.

<http://www.mailwasher.net/>

Michelle