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 > > > > > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > > > To access our Archives: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > > For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > > > To access our Archives: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > > For more info: > > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk