Set a filter that sends "legal" mailing lists to your mailing list folder.
Set another filter that sends friends/family/work/etc to their own folders.
Anything else (spam) gets dumped in the Inbox.
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If you have O2002, you can do something similar by whitelisting. "Whitelisting is the opposite of blacklisting. Whereas the latter bans messages from certain senders, whitelisting accepts mail from specific senders."
"The new feature is an additional Rules Wizard condition: "sender is in Address Book," where you choose the address book--I've chosen my Contacts folder. For a message from a sender found in my Contacts folder, the rule applies a "known sender" category and stops processing the message. The "stop processing" action ensures that the message stays in my Inbox. Another rule at the bottom of the list moves everything that previous rules didn't handle into my Junk Mail folder for later review."
How do you do this with PINE/procmail? I'd like to stop using Outlook.
Astral Traveller wrote:
Or better yet, don't tell anyone what you want for Christmas, and then see what they get you, because those gifts are the sort that require true thought on the part of the giver, and it's the thought that counts in the end, right?
Right!
But if your thought includes giving me another sweater, grams, just get me a book. Because "outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --Groucho Marx
Yes. One definition of a filter is:
"A program or routine that blocks access to data that meet a particular criterion."
Hotmail uses a anti-spam routine.
That routine blocks access to data (spam)...
that meets a particular criterion (if sender does not exist in address book, filter it)
That'll kill a lot of legitimate mail (non-spam, just from anybody you don't happen to have in your address book).
You're right. But considering how easy it is to add someone to your address book, that's not a problem. (Click the "Add to Address Book" button by the person's name.) You only have to do it once.
Plus faked sender addresses aren't caught that way.
Nobody I know sends mail to me with a faked sender address. But if they do, see above point.
a. Use Outlook secretly
b. Receive loads of foreign spam
c. Don't know any foreign languages
d. Don't have any foreign friends
e. Don't have any friends
This Outlook rule is for you!
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with
Ô or
¾ or
Ç or
or
É or
½ or
Í or
ò or
Ë or
® or
Ä or
ã or
Ï or
Ö or
Ô
in the subject or body
delete it
and stop processing more rules.
This blocks 99% of foreign spam.
Sue Mosher wrote about other effective methods for killing spam in Outlook.
Finally, before you reply saying "You dummy, that filter works in any client!" -- You're right.
Don't like Hotmail very much, but their
spam filter rocks. 100% of spam is binned.
Today in my unused Hotmail box, I see:
Inbox 0 (0 new)
Junk Mail 189 (189 new)
Why? If you set the option, Hotmail excludes
anyone not in your address book. In other words,
anything _NOT_ sent to someone in your address
book goes directly to the bin.
Outlook 2002's new rules manager does the same thing.
Does anyone know if Eudora, Calypso, or PINE can filter
by excluding those not in your address book?
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible.
How the FastTrack P2P stack works (with pictures)
on
Kazaa to be shut down?
·
· Score: 4, Informative
Much like Napster and Gnutella, search results in Morpheus contain the IP addresses of peers sharing the files that match the search criteria, and file downloads are purely peer-to-peer. As is the case with Gnutella, file transfers are via the HTTP protocol. Because of this, each peer is essentially a Web server. With knowledge of the appropriate URLs, Clip2 was able to successfully download files from Morpheus peers using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
A typical Morpheus file download request looks like this:
Upon receiving the above download request, a Morpheus peer sends a response like this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 4381547
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:43:32 GMT
Server: KazaaClient May 7 2001 15:59:09
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:31:02 GMT
X-Kazaa-Network: KaZaA
X-Kazaa-IP: 10.20.31.42:1214
X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: 120.23.123.227:1214
X-KazaaTag: 5=274
X-KazaaTag: 21=128
X-KazaaTag: 4=I have a dream
X-KazaaTag: 6=Martin Luther King Jr.
X-KazaaTag: 14=Speeches
X-KazaaTag: 3=asqK3s/zY2oC4IaGYq3gJYWLcKo=
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Note the use of metadata headers describing the requested file. Also, note the repeated occurrence of the "Kazaa" name in these headers.
Following the HTTP response, the number of bytes specified in the "Content-length" header is sent from the peer sharing the file to the one who sent the download request, and the connection is closed. [more...]
Yeah, I found it strange that when I recently threw out the ATI Rage 128 that came with the machine and put in a Geforce 2 MX, the text mode suddenly became really slow. -WWWWolf
Hello wideangle, the human Archeologist, welcome back to NetHack!--More--
You see here a shiny nvidia card.
.
A geforce for 599 zorkmids. Pay? [yn] (n)
y
You bought a geforce for 599 gold pieces. --More--
"Thank you for shopping in Tom's discount hardware!"
R
You remove the heatsink.
You feel like you've done something bad.
#pray
A Large voice booms: "Thou hast angered me." --More--
The geforce explodes! You are blinded by the smoke!
It hits! It hits! --More--
It hits! It burns! --More--
It bites!
You die.
The shopkeeper gratefully inherits all your possessions.
Goodbye wideangle.
You were Microsoft-aligned.
You were inspired by user 31387.
You were unlucky.
You were broke.
You mentioned heavy rains would mess up switching. Heavy rains screw up the lines here too, though we can usually get a voice call out. Data line keeps switching on and off though.
Can you (or anyone) go into exactly why this happens?
quote:... You would only be a "dupe" if you did not understand the terms of the BSD
license --
which is unlikely, since it is a very short, simple and clear
license. (The GPL, on the other hand, goes on for pages and contains much
legalese.) The BSD license, and the MIT X license, say that anyone can use
the code in any way he or she wants -- so long as they release the author
from liability for bugs. Simple, clear, and to the point. There's not much
room to be "duped" here!
quote:
In fact, if you understand the history of the GPL (which is documented in Steven
Levy's book
Hackers, you know that one of Richard Stallman's goals in
creating the GPL was exactly this: to prevent the reuse of the products of
government-sponsored research in commercial products.
Richard Stallman, who
did government-sponsored research at the MIT AI Lab, was traumatized when his
co-workers left the Lab to convert its research into "real" products that
people could use. As Levy wrote:
This was RMS's opportunity for revenge.... Stallman had no illusions
that his act would significantly improve the world at large. He had come to
accept that the domain around the AI Lab had been permanently polluted. He
was out to cause as much damage to the culprit as he could.
[Stallman] retaliated [against the computer scientists who left the MIT
AI Lab to form Symbolics] by sabotaging his former colleagues' sophisticated
commercial programs for powerful computers, singlehandedly hacking up his own
versions and giving them away. "They accused me of costing them
millions of dollars," he says. "I hope it's true."
Slashdot Mirror
Think of it like dumpster diving -- sometimes you
discover good stuff in there.:
Seriously, the trick is making legit mail easier to find.
So in addition to the whitelist, you need more filters:
- Filter mail sent from [family addresses] to family folder
- Filter mail sent from [friend addresses] to friends
- Filter mail sent from [*@work.com] to work
- Filter mail with subj [ebay] to ebay
- Filter mail with [foreign strings] to junk AND color it Gray
- Filter mail with [spam criteria] to junk AND color it Gray
- Anything else goes to junk for review
Key rules are #5 and 6, which color spam appropriately.Now it's easier to review your junk folder, because real mail is most likely colored Black.
Add one more rule, to be checked after you send a _reply_ to a legit msg:
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If you have O2002, you can do something similar by whitelisting. "Whitelisting is the opposite of blacklisting. Whereas the latter bans messages from certain senders, whitelisting accepts mail from specific senders."
"The new feature is an additional Rules Wizard condition: "sender is in Address Book," where you choose the address book--I've chosen my Contacts folder. For a message from a sender found in my Contacts folder, the rule applies a "known sender" category and stops processing the message. The "stop processing" action ensures that the message stays in my Inbox. Another rule at the bottom of the list moves everything that previous rules didn't handle into my Junk Mail folder for later review."
How do you do this with PINE/procmail? I'd like to stop using Outlook.
Because everyone knows, Bose RULES!
I carry mine around on my shoulder like a boom-box. Aww yeah.
But if your thought includes giving me another sweater, grams, just get me a book.
Because "outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --Groucho Marx
Yes. One definition of a filter is:
"A program or routine that blocks access to data that meet a particular criterion."
You're right. But considering how easy it is to add someone to your address book, that's not a problem. (Click the "Add to Address Book" button by the person's name.) You only have to do it once.
Nobody I know sends mail to me with a faked sender address. But if they do, see above point.
For the many /.ers who:
a. Use Outlook secretly
b. Receive loads of foreign spam
c. Don't know any foreign languages
d. Don't have any foreign friends
e. Don't have any friends
This Outlook rule is for you!
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with
Ô or ¾ or Ç or or É or ½ or Í or ò or Ë or ® or Ä or ã or Ï or Ö or Ô in the subject or body
delete it
and stop processing more rules.
This blocks 99% of foreign spam. Sue Mosher wrote about other effective methods for killing spam in Outlook. Finally, before you reply saying "You dummy, that filter works in any client!" -- You're right.
Don't like Hotmail very much, but their
spam filter rocks. 100% of spam is binned.
Today in my unused Hotmail box, I see:
Inbox 0 (0 new)
Junk Mail 189 (189 new)
Why? If you set the option, Hotmail excludes
anyone not in your address book. In other words,
anything _NOT_ sent to someone in your address
book goes directly to the bin.
So unless you have simon.wong@bulkemail.ca
in your address book, you should be spam-free.
------
Outlook 2002's new rules manager does the same
thing. Does anyone know if Eudora, Calypso, or PINE can
filter by excluding those not in your address book?
Will AMD respond with a new rating system?
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if you don't mind who gets the credit." --Ronald Reagan
Brett Glass wins again. Babality!
Interesting. Anyone else experience this?
Hello wideangle, the human Archeologist, welcome back to NetHack!--More--
You see here a shiny nvidia card.
.
A geforce for 599 zorkmids. Pay? [yn] (n)
y
You bought a geforce for 599 gold pieces. --More--
"Thank you for shopping in Tom's discount hardware!"
R
You remove the heatsink.
You feel like you've done something bad.
#pray
A Large voice booms: "Thou hast angered me." --More--
The geforce explodes! You are blinded by the smoke!
It hits! It hits! --More--
It hits! It burns! --More--
It bites!
You die.
The shopkeeper gratefully inherits all your possessions.
Goodbye wideangle.
You were Microsoft-aligned.
You were inspired by user 31387.
You were unlucky.
You were broke.
You mean like this gadget? [keep those pesky noodles out of your hair]
.
Or this one? [take a bath without getting wet!]
Japan dominates the cool gadget industry so well, they wrote a HOW-TO
Then water cool your PC.
1 00 G
http://www.koolance.com
http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp_p6.htm
Or use a Zalman passive heat sink:
http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp_p4.htm#CNPS3
http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm
You mentioned heavy rains would mess up switching. Heavy rains screw up the lines here too, though we can usually get a voice call out. Data line keeps switching on and off though.
Can you (or anyone) go into exactly why this happens?
Thank you.
So this is where our tax dollars go.
Mod einhverfr's post up -- good stuff!
Unblock them.
#127.0.0.1 ad.uk.doubleclick.net # used at theregister
#127.0.0.1 ads.admonitor.net # used at drudge
#127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org # used at slashdot
Consider it your way of giving back to the sites you visit most.
Defending the BSD license --
GPL: The Great Wall
Avoiding GPL "infection"
Un-"GNUing" software
Epine: +5 Informative, excellent job.
Steven Spielberg's new movie is really, really, really bad. It's bad in almost every way...