Tom Perrett wrote: > 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> > > > All mailing lists that I belong to have a common word in them. eg. Ayr has [AYR] in it's subject. East Lothian has [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] - very easy to make a filter to allow these through. Julie