From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 17:16:21 MDT
As spam as invaded my equivalent of "newstrom.com", your method
won't quite work for me. Also my mail software doesn't include
any equivalent of "otherwise".
- samantha
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> I almost never get spam. I have discovered that most spammers send mass
> mailings with the recipient list suppressed. (They don't want anyone
> else harvesting e-mail address from them without permission. How
> ironic!) This simple fact distinguishes virtually all mass mailings
> from individual mailings to my address. This makes it easy to make a
> simple rule so I get individual mailings to me while I block all mass
> mailings. The only exception rules that need to be created are when I
> want a mass mailing (as when I sign up for a mailing list). By default,
> these filters do what I want. I get 500+ spams per week. In the two
> years of doing this, I have never rejected a real message, and very
> rarely have gotten a spam into my primary incoming folder.
>
> On MacOS X, my mail filter rules are:
> - If "body of message" contains "Harvey" or "Newstrom" then move to
> "about Newstrom" folder
> - If "To: or CC:" contains "extropians" then move to "Extropians List"
> folder
> - (other rules for other e-mail lists...)
> - If "To:" or "CC:" contains "newstrom.com" then move to "for Newstrom"
> folder.
> - otherwise move to "Mass Mailing" folder
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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