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Subject:homemade anti spam
From:Matthew Pollard
Date:Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:16:34 -0700

ok i've made one and now you can too. If you delete key is too much work
to hit... make an email filter! IT is really easy to do. Here is what i
did. I use both Netscape and Pine 4.30 (yes, Unix).  In these programs i
set up a filter that says "if the word vanagon (non case sensitive),
westy, syncro, weekender appears in the body of the letter, let the email
live. Otherwise move it to the trash folder." That is it. Very easy.  The
key to this is making sure there are enough nouns to desribe list content
but not spam content. So i'd leave out teenagers, young and chicks.

Ok, back to my unix.
matthew

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu

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