Re: Anyone Using Skype?

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:30:42 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Anyone Using Skype? Comments?

[snip]
I'll be using it fro overseas stuff.

BTW, does your filter still catch lots of Google spam?

E-mail: Website (with filters) -> GoDaddy Relay (with filters)->
Eudora Pro v7.1.0.9 Pre-identified spam sources go straight to Trash,
"scored" spam (by Eudora) goes to "Junk". I see NO spam in my E-mail
InBox... occasional new inquiries go to Junk. Then I declare them NOT
Junk... meaning Eudora creates its own whitelist.


My email hardly receives any spam either. I've got some filters and it does a similar thing, once you "un-trash" something it's white-listed. Currently it's Mozilla, I wanted to migrate to Thunderbird but when filtering newsgroups because of all this Google junk it didn't do as good a job as Mozilla does. So maybe I'll leave my email with Mozilla. It's also older so it crashes less.


News: nfilter (NewsProxy) -> Agent (v4.2)
I use nfilter to "Flag" (i.e. Label the subject with "GOOG") all
googlegroups posters except those that are white-listed, then Agent
deletes all messages with GOOG in the subject... so I see NO
googlegroups spam in Agent. I also kill postings from AIOE and UAR
and various messages with "remailer" or "anonymous" in the headers. I
also have EYOR, JERK and TURD (you can guess ;-) categories which not
only kill the original posts but any follow-ups... I LOVE nfilter ;-)


I just use the Thunderbird filter. It's quite rocky but after a few reset attempts it works fine. Nice and clean newsgroups again. But because I cannot coax it into sending to trash I can't whitelist. Oh well, if somebody really needs to ask me something they can always email. Or get a domain more reputable than gmail.


TURD is the punk in San Diego who thinks he can jump IP addresses fast
enough to get through to me... he can't (I talked to my son Aaron,
quite the communications expert, and he helped me set it up ;-)

Any responses you see me making occasionally are only because I'm
presently watching all the labeling to make sure it's working
properly, and to add white-listing as needed.


Most people and small businesses are on a lower cost broadband package and then they don't give you a fixed IP. It'll be dynamic IP, meaning everytime it went down or you turned it off and then switch Internet back on you've got a fresh IP address. This works and even helps against hackers but it does become problematic if they overbook, IOW sign up more clients than they have IP addresses.


I directed mine to dump gmail and such into the trash file so I could take an occasional peek but no matter what I do it just dumps them all to lalaland. I wonder if it's time to ease up or do we have to ditch gmail for good?

What E-mail and news clients are you using?


Email Mozilla, for NGs Thunderbird. And I don't want to change again just because some formerly nice domain has become rogue. I never plonked anyone but I had no chance other than ditch the whole gmail, googlemail and whatever.

So, does nfilter spit out stats about whether the gmail barrage is letting up or is gmail toast? Maybe someone sans filter can chime in since I don't see it anymore on my screen.

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