Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:56:30 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: spam filters (not FreeBSD specific) Message-ID: <p05100333b7581cd862e0@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010621151720.017b3320@threespace.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010619153313.017aae08@216.117.185.81> <4.3.2.7.2.20010619153313.017aae08@216.117.185.81> <4.3.2.7.2.20010621151720.017b3320@threespace.com>
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At 3:22 PM -0400 6/21/01, Technical Information wrote:
> Basically it's a limitation of the software being used. I was looking
> to have something that I could implement relatively easily on the
> client side (Eudora, Outlook [Express], or even a web-based mailer).
> Most of the clients I've seen have only the simplest string matching
> facilities for filtering.
If that's your limitation, then I fear you are doomed to minimal
filtering. The kinds of strings that you could potentially catch in
junkmail change too quickly, and there's too much of a chance of a
"false positive" (where something gets tagged as spam when it's not).
I use Eudora myself, and my filtering is relatively minimal.
First off, I look for certain e-mail addresses belonging to certain
people that I know I don't ever want to hear from again, and that
stuff gets tossed in the trash. I then search for the mailing lists
I know that I've subscribed to, and they all go off into their
respective folders. I then look for anything that actually has one
of my e-mail addresses listed as one of the recipients, and then
depending on which e-mail address it is, that either gets filed in my
"home" or my "work" folder. Everything else (basically, anything
sent to me from an address I don't recognize, and for which I am only
an envelope recipient) will get left in my standard "inbox", which I
have to sort through manually.
I don't think that you can realistically expect to do much more
than this with the kinds of simple filtering available in Eudora, or
somesuch.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
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