Those that use Spamfighter advice. VFRC

Tried to not have to use it but am getting spamed out.
But it often fires VFR list mail,(VFRC.), even mine, into the spam folder and as a lot of you will know, the unblock "feature" just freezes it.
Is there any way to set up the list as an okay domain etc, to allow mails in?
Or a better and simpler spam filter?
TIA.
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Steve "Spider" Enfield
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Sydney, Australia
www.ozvfr.net
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Steve "Spider" Enfield scribbled:

> Tried to not have to use it but am getting spamed out.
> But it often fires VFR list mail,(VFRC.), even mine, into the spam
> folder and as a lot of you will know, the unblock "feature" just freezes it.
> Is there any way to set up the list as an okay domain etc, to allow
> mails in?
> Or a better and simpler spam filter?

Personally, I disdain people who have to use gimmicks such as spamblocker
and who expect other folks to jump through hoops to contact them. (It usually
means they have sloppy personal security.)

I have better things to do than waste time on them.


This advice is for people who want to do things 'right' the first time around;


Your first line of defense is never EVER give out your email address except
to those that absolutely have to have it. This will keep those who abuse
addresses from getting it.

Do not allow friends or family to send you *anything* by putting your email
address into a site, including American Greetings. Raise Hell if you must but
get that point across.

Conversely, do not forward /anything/ unless you have trimmed off all the
extraneous email addresses of other recipients. Teach others to do this.

Next, have a number of different email accounts for different purposes. I
have setup on this machine 16 different ones for my own use. That includes one
designated for banking, one for ebay, yet another for PayPal. Then there are
several for different personal interests, including from match.com, and this
list as well. All these do not include the one I give out to only close
friends and family. Keep them separate so if it does become abused you can cut
it off and use another without having to change all your contacts.

Small detail to keep in mind; most spammers that auto-generate spam use
dictionary generators. The vast majority of these DO NOT USE A PERIOD! If your
name is 'Joe Blow' and you have an account at gmail.com then set it up as
joe.blow@xxxxxx That small detail alone will stop 99%+ of auto generated spam.

Avoid using Yahoo Mail or HotMail, the companies running them actually make
money by selling your email address to third parties. (Didn't you ever wonder
why it's 'free'?)

If you need additional email accounts that don't cost anything, go to
gmail.com and sign up. It's been my experience that it works well and NO ads
delivered to your inbox.

For an email client I used to use Navigator till AOL bought out the
company. I then went to Mozilla, and later to Seamonkey. Using Outlook Express
as your email client is asking for TROUBLE in my opinion. Every code monkey on
the planet looking to send mal-formed mail codes for it, simply because most
people use it because it's 'free'.

My 2¢. Do with it as you will.





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>> Tried to not have to use it but am getting spamed out.
Is there any way to set up the list as an okay domain etc, to allow
mails in?
Or a better and simpler spam filter? <<


I use Postini through my ISP which works great. It catches 99.9% of the spam
and almost never blocks any email that it shouldn't. It even catches virus
laded email. All of this happens on the ISP server before it even reaches my
computer. I am very happy with this product.
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'00 VFR800FI
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For the original poster: there seems to be a new version out there from
SpamFighter, dated TODAY that seems to address some of the issues you are
having.

T,

> Your first line of defense is never EVER give out your email address
> except
> to those that absolutely have to have it. This will keep those who abuse
> addresses from getting it.
>
> Do not allow friends or family to send you *anything* by putting your
> email
> address into a site, including American Greetings. Raise Hell if you must
but
> get that point across.
>
> Conversely, do not forward /anything/ unless you have trimmed off all
the
> extraneous email addresses of other recipients. Teach others to do this.

While I generally agree with your points, it is virtually impossible to keep
an email address free from spam. Even email addresses that are not used at
all, other than for receiving mail like for instance this mailinglist will
eventually and over time get spam.

I have heaps of email addresses on my own server using different domains,
and while most of them are inactive ALL of them receive spam. Even those
that have never been used to send and have never been given to anyone or
anything. Not that it bothers me too much, as the server side filtering
catches 99% so I don't have to look at it. My primary domain received
385,791 emails over the last 12 months. Only 80,410 of them passed to the
various mailboxes. That means 80% of mail received by my mailserver was
spam. And it is only getting worse.

> If you need additional email accounts that don't cost anything, go to
> gmail.com and sign up. It's been my experience that it works well and NO
ads
> delivered to your inbox.

Yeah, if you do not care about your privacy, please do. Google sole purpose
in life is to make money by collecting personal data from you. As much as
they can and then some. They index your email. Your search behavior is
linked to your user account and stored it for at least 3 years before it is
anonymized. They have a good marketing machine, but they do not give a rats
ass about your privacy or anything about you for that matter. If there is a
company that should be avoided like it is the plague by people that care for
their privacy etc., it's Google. If you don't worry about your privacy, why
worry about some spam?

Gijs.

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