Re: use this patch immediately message

From: David Robbins (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:00:28 -0000

at work we have a system like that. suspect mail is stopped before it gets
to the mail servers and is saved on another system where you can go look at
it with a web interface. you can tell it to delete or forward it on and
control the filter settings from the web interface. at home my isp uses one
that changes the subject line to start with '::SPAM::' which is easy to make
up a rule to throw away, they say they will soon be making it possible to
have them throw those messages away without downloading them but i don't
know if there will be a review before they are dumped... their spamassasin
software is pretty good though, i haven't seen one false positive, but it
does miss some percentage of spam.

"Kerry Liles" <kerryliles.nospam.@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:uZuYHST1DHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> If your mail reader supports rules (it seems yours does) then you can
> autodelete the message as it comes in. There isn't any way to stop it
coming
> to you unless you implement some sort of pre-scan of your inbound mail
> [preferably on the server side].
>
> Many people think that an ISP should *not* filter email in any way (most
> notably because most ISPs seem incompetent at such things and we are
afraid
> they'd likely cause good email to be lost). If ISPs filtered mail _and_
> allowed the user to see "suspect" messages and delete/accept them - that
> would be impressive.
>
>
> "Bert" <bertingram2000@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> news:0b7701c3d530$b292d6a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> > Is there any way I can stop recieving this email? I have
> > never opened it. I have it going to my deleted items
> > folder.But am tired of geting it.Should my ISP be
> > blocking it?
>
>

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