help!

[verbminx]

So, what are some words that you'd put in a fairly aggressive spam filter, one that's going to send all spam to a folder, where I can scan over it to make sure it isn't Real Mail before I delete it?

so far i have penis/enlargement/horny/webcam/viagra.

any other common spam subject line words? i'm thinking of "inkjet" and "credit" maybe as well. how about "diploma"?

(re my current mood: being driven crazy in loco parentis, also irritated cos I can't get streaming internet radio to work. will probably go watch Cold Case and knit.)

Comments

[patchwolf.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I wouldn't bother with mail filters like that. Try looking for an anti-spam filter piece of software, but one that will allow you to check for false positives.

If I had a spam problem, I would probably use something like SpamTrap (http://www.spamtrap.net.au). This is an Australian company, but you might be able to find an American counterpart somewhere.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

hahaha... too mcuh effort. i'm just playing around with the "mail rules tools" on my one mailbox that i use for anything that might end up getting spam. i'm just getting a lot and, since i was already filtering stuff like mail from specific friends and mail from A Word A Day into their own folders, I might as well try and see what I could do with spam subject lines. It won't catch all of it, but it'll be a lot less that I have to sort through.