-=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?

  • From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:13:50 -0500

No.  It doesn't have to be.  If you use the regular expressions filtering and 
make your FIRST rules to allow legitimate mail and your last rules to block, 
you won't lose anything.  I've not lost one legitimate mail with MailWasher.  
Ever.

On Monday 29 September 2003 10:08, you wrote:
> Which is what I find difficult about mail rules. When you block stuff you
> dont' want you also block anything else that ISN'T a problem...makes it
> difficult..hmmmm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barnstoneworth" <barneystorm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:24 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Weaver" <djweaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:50 PM
> > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
> >
> > > Nope not familiar with it.  I'm using SpamBayes right now.  I've used
> > > Mailwasher in the past, was okay, but wasn't thoroughly impressed, and
> > > I've used K-9.  K-9 did all right once trained about a 93-94% accuracy
> > > rate (something I never achieved with MailWasher.  SpamBayes is at
> > > something like 98% accuracy.  I'm pretty happy.
> >
> > That's odd regarding Mailwasher, I get 100% of all spam blocked, and I
> > noticed within about 1 month that the actual amount I was getting had
> > dropped dramatically.
> >
> > To get round the problem that James's spam solution causes I've just set
>
> up
>
> > a mail rule to block anything from his address-the only problem with that
>
> is
>
> > if he ever sent me a 'proper' email, I wouldn't get it
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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