[SECC] question on email - spamarrest

[Kt4zb at aol.com]

Probably shouldn't say anything as my email was just hacked 2 days  ago. 
However, it was the first time in the 15 years or so I've had the  account.  I 
have no idea what happened.  I found the stuff on my  secondary computer 
that I don't use very much; although it is connected to the  internet.
 
I don't necessarily recommend AOL; but, it was my first email account and  
the spam filter works well.  There is a report spam button that actually  
seems to work; the system learns and what junk I receive usually goes  
straight to spam.  That is only about 3-5 a day.  It gets confused by  the [QSL] 
reflector some, but, that's not much of a problem.
 
What I did notice from my being "hacked" is that much of the spam sent from 
 my account was tagged by AOL with the "X-SPAM-FLAG: YES" which resulted in 
the  email being bounced by MDaemon.  So lot's of the folks in my address 
book  did not receive the spam.  There were five different subjects generated 
so  I am trying to determine which ones were tagged and not.  Stuff 
originated  from Fr Guiana.
 
I agree with all that I don't like the "send request" feature that  some 
use to filter their email.  I prepare the newsletter the for local  radio club 
and since I use a list, I'll get some bounces that create extra  work. 
 
Best - Jere, KT4ZB



In a message dated 4/23/2013 7:59:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jimworth at me.com writes:

I agree. I find it annoying when someone emails me a question or request  
for for help and then expects me to deal with their spam service to be able 
to  reply.


You may also find you miss emails from organizations and professionals  you 
want to hear from, such as your bank, investment firm, lawyer, doctor,  
dentist, ARRL, radio club, etc. In most cases, they won't take the time to  
deal with filling out a form for the privilege of emailing you.


I find that having a good email filter that places suspected spam in a  
separate "Junk" folder and learns from your decisions about what is junk mail,  
works best. I can scan my Junk folder once or twice a day in less than a  
minute, based on the sender and subject. Most of the time, everything in the  
folder is spam and I can delete it all with two clicks. In my case, the  
filtering is done by Apple Mail, but there are plenty of other effective  ones.

Jim AD4J

On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Lee Hiers <_lee.hiers at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:lee.hiers at gmail.com) >  wrote:




Another problem with Spamarrest and similar "services" is that  some of us 
refuse to deal with the BS.  

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