(William R. Watt) wrote in message ...
people here at the FreeNet community network find that limiting mail size
to 600 lines rejects all the recent worm spam. the rejected mail is deleted
as it arrives at the server computer rather than just being tagged as
spam and saved until we logon and delete it. You can probably tell your
filter program what to do with mail you don't want in your mailbox too.

a mail filtre program is just a tool. its only as good as your mail
filtering strategy. I use a very old mail filtre program (elm on a UNIX
host) without all the bells and whistles and fancy features of more recent
filtre programs and get only 4-5 unwanted messages per week.

my strategy is to specify the mail I want in my mailbox, rather than
attempting to specify all the mail I don't want in my mailbox. all
unaccepted mail is "bounced", ie returned to the sender, as undeliverable.
bouncing unwanted mail is a whole other strategy. I can do it becuase my
filtre accepts all returned mail.

I've written up a description of my filtering strategy in file
www.ncf.ca/~ag384/elmSpamFiltre.txt if anyone wants to look at it.

also see the warning in my signature file below.

hope that helps.

Am I wrong or did this stuf just stop.
I am using a program ( free) called mail washer and it helped big
time. I must donate to their cause shortly.
My emailed MS virus crud just petered out and vanished.