"Edna MacPherson SABATO" (ceilidh@sabatech.net) writes: > Hi, Everyone; > Is anyone else plagued with enormous numbers of Unwanted Mail??? > If I use the dreaded S-word, this message will be lost, for sure. > My Service Provider, mentions numbers into many thousands per day. > Edna MacPherson Sabato Hi Edna, Instead of trying to identify the source and block all incoming spam, my ISP has a handy filter (known as ELM) which I can program to reject all incoming mail whose subject line does not contain a code word. This protects people from purloining your address book and discourages spammers from having to "customize" their subject line for each and all outgoing messages. The "down" side is that I do have to alert legitimate mailers (who frequently forget the protocol!)! Cheers, John.

On 12 Nov 2009 14:50:43 GMT, John P. Bromley wrote: >"Edna MacPherson SABATO" (ceilidh@sabatech.net) writes: >> Hi, Everyone; >> Is anyone else plagued with enormous numbers of Unwanted Mail??? >> If I use the dreaded S-word, this message will be lost, for sure. >> My Service Provider, mentions numbers into many thousands per day. >> Edna MacPherson Sabato > >Hi Edna, > >Instead of trying to identify the source and block all incoming spam, >my ISP has a handy filter (known as ELM) which I can program to reject >all incoming mail whose subject line does not contain a code word. > >This protects people from purloining your address book and discourages >spammers from having to "customize" their subject line for each and all >outgoing messages. > >The "down" side is that I do have to alert legitimate mailers (who >frequently forget the protocol!)! > >Cheers, > >John. To me the even BIGGER downsize with that is one would never be able to subscribe to any mailing list. Cheers, Tom [Tom Perrett] <tomp@st.net.au>