On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:57:39PM -0400, Bruce DeVisser wrote:
> Though this is off topic, might as well answer at the same
> time. The following is what I have set up. It's not too
> fancy. It doesn't toast the mail, it merely sticks it into a
> 'spam' folder. This is the only way to be safe about spam.
> Periodically I go through the spam folder and manually check
> for anything worthwhile, deleting the rest -- it's usually
> pretty fast to do this.
I'll just add my $0.02US to this and agree with Bruce's example. After
spending lots of time trying to weed out spammers, I found the most
effective filter was to simple accept all known addresses and everything
else goes into a spam folder. Nearly all the spam I receive is not
addressed to me or one of the mailing lists I subscribe to. You just have
to remember to read your spam folder every once in a while. I actually have
a +spam at the end of my `mailboxes' line in my .muttrc to remind me I have
mail waiting there.
me
