Re: OT: Spam filters

krw wrote:

In article <17%ai.13418$2v1.10893@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

krw wrote:


In article <Fu_ai.7576$u56.4153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...


john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



On 8 Jun, 21:35, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Has anyone figured out how to "un-train" a spam filter when it becomes
too strict? Mine now catches all email from a certain project, despite
the fact that the sender is in the address book and junk mail controls
are set to exclude any email from senders that are.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com


I gave up on useless filters so now pay a small amount each month for
spam filtering at my ISP. Have not seen a single item of spam in 15
months.
So perfect, I'm now suspecting that each email is manually read before
forwarding!.


I'll look into that but could only do it if they send the spam marked for an automatic path to the waste basket. I need to be able to look because there will be the occasional miscatch.


My ISP marks spam with a tag. I then filter that into the wastebasket. I manually empty the wastebasket (about 2000 spams) once a week. My ISP only misses about 1# of the spam, so it's not all that hard to manually sort that. Oh, I also have a few filters to filter out anything with funny characters in the subject line.


That sounds good, I'll have to inquire. As long as they send everything it'll be fine. Some spammers became really good, they concoct subject lines that sound like they are from an engineer. Such as "DA converter problem" and stuff like that.


They offer two options, throw spam away at the ISP or have it tagged and also allow user filters at the server. Their tag is *very* good. They must do something other than look at the contents so I use it along with filters to eliminate things like Chinese, at the server. Why I can't have stuff they catch as well as set my own filters at the server, I don't know.


Since you seem to be on an AT&T server that might work for me as well. I am one of those legacy customers on the old Pacific Bell domain which now belongs to AT&T.


A phenomenon I don't quite understand is subject and text in Russian. Maybe there are enough Russian speakers in the US that 0.1% of recipients can read it. Of which 0.001% would ever do so, meaning they probably hope that at least one of them will take a glimpse. What a sad life.


Why Chinese? I can't read Unicode.


I wouldn't be able to filter that out because some of my clients produce in China. Emails from there can contain Chinese sections, especially if I am copied on a problem they tried to solve internally at first.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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