[Az-Geocaching] Re: SPAM

[Brian Cluff]

Just wanted to add my 2 cents worth to the config below.  This WILL get
rid of most spam that you don't want, however it WILL delete any message
that is blind carbon coppied to you (BCCed).  This is fairly rare for
most people.  About the only time I use it is to send a replay to
someone nasty gram and also send a copy without their knowledge to
someone of authority.  We also use it at AzGeocaching.com to send you
contact information when someone has requested to speak with someone on
the mailing list.  That way both parties get the e-mail but the e-mail
address of the person on the list has been conceiled from the party
requesting the contact.

Anyway, just wanted to give people a heads up about the type of e-mail
that the filter WOULD be deleteing that you might actually want.
You might want to tweek the filter slightly so that instead of deleteing
it that it coppies it into a spam folder, then you can go though it at
your leisure without the worry of accidentally deleteing a message you
actually want.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 08:45, Team A.I. wrote:
> I am assuming that most people are using OE or Outlook in some flavor for e-mail.  A solution that works quite well, and has resulted in almost no false positives was a simple message rule.
> 
> Tools>Message Rules>Mail
> Click New
> In the first box, check the box for Where the To or CC line contains people
> In the second box, check Delete It.
> Click on the blue highlighted text in the third box that says "contains people".
> Enter your e-mail addres in the first box, then click the Add button.
> The Options button will now highlight.  Click Options, and change from "contains people" to "does not contain", then click OK.
> Click OK until you get out of the filter menu.
> When all inbound mail comes, if the To or CC field doesn't explicitly contain your e-mail address, the e-mail will go straight to your Trash.  To ensure you have no false positives, check your Deleted Items folder just to make sure.
> 
> Brian
> Team A.I.
> I haven't lost my mind.  It's backed up on disk somewhere.