Re: AUGD: Filtering unsolicited/unwanted email from .mac account
Re: AUGD: Filtering unsolicited/unwanted email from .mac account
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Filtering unsolicited/unwanted email from .mac account
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:45:58 -0400
On 26-Jul-06, at 12:26 AM, Maria O. Arguello wrote:
One of the features in Mail that I love is the Bounce button. When an
unwanted 'junk' mail comes to me, I hit Bounce and that usually
stops them.
Maria
Hi Maria!!
Thanks for mentioning this feature of Mail. I am not so sure just how
helpful it will be, but the fact is that I had never even been aware
of it until I read your message and took the time to go looking for
this button in the Customize Toolbar ... area. Then of course I read
about what it does in the Mail Help area.
I have been trying it, and expect to continue doing so for a while.
Of course, all it does for some of the SPAM is generate yet another
message saying that mail to the SPAM address also cannot be
delivered. But I am finding that I get that only for 30 to 40 % of
the emails for which I use it, so I expect that the other 60% or so
must be receiving my message. Whether this will result in my email
address being taken off any SPAM lists is yet another thing we'll
have to see.
My experience seems to be like some others, i.e. that I have been
noticing a very gradual but steady increase in the volume of SPAM
which slips through my Mail application's Junk filtering scheme and
makes its way to my main Inbox. At the same time, there has also been
an increase in the volume of SPAM that does end up in my Junk folder.
I rather think that there is not going to be any really easy way to
stop this. The SPAMMERS are just getting cleverer and cleverer at
fooling Mail. Particularly worthy of note are the ones which
masquerade as a message from your bank credit card asking you to
logon to a specific site to "reinstate" your account. I just trash
anything like this that I see without even reading it, except of
course to marvel at how well some of it is done. Unfortunatley, the
giveaway in many cases is that the programming is great but the
English is very poor.
I hope you are having a great summer. Back in June or so, we had
three weeks of lovely warm weather WITHOUT humidity, but lately we
are back into the more traditional eastern Canada summer which is
both hot and humid. Fortunately, I have air conditioning at home, so
that's where I spend a lot of my time. Had a round of radiation
therapy recently, which of course tends to take a bit of you for a
while, so am basically just recovering from that of late. Take care.
Jim Foster
Apple User Group Regional Liaison - Canada
&
President - Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
http://www.mause.ca
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