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

Regular expressions filtering is a somewhat difficult to master system of text 
searching that can weed out spoofing, find a precise word, find a close match 
ot a word (and letters, and numbers, and ascii characters).

This is only one place to look.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/regex.html

This is the search that has this site and others.

http://www.google.com/search?q=regular%20expressions&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 07:57, you wrote:
> what are the expression filtering?
> thx!
> crisS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wyatt M. Portendt
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:11 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
>
> MailWasher is *not* a proxy service.  SpamAlert is.  Your email is not sent
> to another site to be verified.  It simply intercept the headers (and
> optionally the messages) at *your own server*.  The addresses can be
> cross-referenced to blacklists, but the true power is in using regular
> expressions filtering to weed out what you want to bounce.  It works.  I've
> proven it with three separate mail addresses.
>
> Without MailWasher I had about 15-35 percent spam rate in my inbox.  Now I
> get about one every two months - maybe.  Since I handle about 75 to 100
> emails a day, that's pretty darned good.
>
> On Monday 29 September 2003 09:38, you wrote:
> > That's the first that I've ever heard someone getting 100%.  Most of the
> > time I've heard anywhere from 93 to 96%.  The other thing I didn't like
> > about MailWasher is the fact that it is a proxy service.  I would rather
> > have a solution such as SpamBayes that directly plugs into my Outlook.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barnstoneworth
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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