how does one change the reply e-mail address?
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.

Skip Gundlach wrote:
Howdy...

You'll note that my 'mailto' and reply addresses are a uga address.
That's
a forwarding from my first account, which people going back into the
early
80s have, so I've kept it alive as a destination, and as a means of
knowing
when a usenet communication is coming (via the account to which it's
posted). However...

Any of you desiring to communicate with me off-list should do so at (my
name, all one word) @earthlink.net. That's because...

One or more of the newsgroups in which I participate has one or more who
have been infected with the current MS worm, and it's overloading my
mailbox
with 150k messages at the rate of a couple hundred an hour.

So, I've blocked the engr.uga address, which will bounce all mail coming
to
me through that address...

Yes, I'm protected, and no, it didn't come from me (or it wouldn't be
going
to uga, as all my mail goes through either the mindspring or earthlink
servers). I do daily virus definition and other updates, and dump the
infected file automatically, so it never even gets opened in my local
computer - but it's overwhelmed my ISP server, and I'm perpetually over
quota!

We'll return you to your normal programming shortly :{))

L8R

Skip




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I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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It depends on your newsreader. I use emacs gnus, and have added to my
..gnus.el file:

(defadvice gnus-post-news (before gnus-user-mail-address activate)
"NOSPAM return address"
(setq user-mail-address "))

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:10:14 GMT, "James Balsley"
wrote something
.......and in reply I say!:

how does one change the reply e-mail address?

In OE6, which you appear to use, edit the account.
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I assumed from the title this thread was about wood worms in boats so I
haven't been reading it.

People here at the FreeNet community network filtre their mail.
They've found that rejecting messages over 600 lines kept all the
latest worm mail from getting into their mailboxes.

My personal filtering strategy is to specify the mail I want to admit
instead of trying to specify all the mail I want to exclude. Much simpler.
I wrote up the strategy for my webpage. Its in file
www.ncf.ca/~ag384/elmSpamFiltre.txt. "ELM' is an old UNIX mail program
which has a built in filtre. There are lots of newer mail programs and mail
filtre programs but you don't really need them. All you need is a superior
strategy and no mail program can give you that. They're all just software
tools which allow you to implement your own filtering strategy.

Also note the warning in my signature file below.

Happy mail filtering.

I prefer to spend my time thinking about boatbuilding instead fo deleting
spam. Currently playing with the design of a 15 ft solo cruiser.
One of those "try to fit it all into a small space and budget" boats.
This one's bigger than a one sheeter. Expanding my horizons.

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:16:02 +0800, Old Nick
wrote:

On 24 Sep 2003 19:17:18 -0400, Dave Cannell
wrote something
......and in reply I say!:

Lobby your ISP to provide an email spam stopper.

As I understand it, ISP-side spam/virus filters are a mixed blessing.
They can strain out real mail as well. However, it seems to me that
with this virus, the attachment is probably the same size most of the
time, that and other criteria should make it fairly easy to nuke these
jerks work.

I think the best thing to do is just string 'em up.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:20:53 -0700, P.C. Ford
wrote something
.......and in reply I say!:

I tried mine for a while, dumping to a separate folder. After a few
weeks of getting no false dumpings, I simply delete from server. I
figure if anything important gets dumped, like lost letters in the
mail, it can be sorted, and in any case, the sender may learn to alter
their methods.

As I understand it, ISP-side spam/virus filters are a mixed blessing.
They can strain out real mail as well. However, it seems to me that
with this virus, the attachment is probably the same size most of the
time, that and other criteria should make it fairly easy to nuke these
jerks work.

I think the best thing to do is just string 'em up.

By WOT?!! G
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Old Nick ) writes:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:20:53 -0700, P.C. Ford
wrote something
......and in reply I say!:

I tried mine for a while, dumping to a separate folder. After a few
weeks of getting no false dumpings, I simply delete from server. I

that can clog up the server. its a problem here at the FreeNet. better to
delete when filtered out instead of waiting.
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On 26 Sep 2003 00:55:11 GMT, (William R.
Watt) wrote something
.......and in reply I say!:

Sorry. Do you mean deleting from Server, or dumping to a separate
folder?

I was not about to start deleting until I had tested the spam
selection software a little.

I don't have the option to delete before it gets to the ISP's server,
or before my account actually accesses it. I believe they are actually
doing a lot of that already, but that's beyond my control. They did
say there were severe legal complications with removing emails, spam
or not, without action/permission by the recipient, and I can
understand that.

I tried mine for a while, dumping to a separate folder. After a few
weeks of getting no false dumpings, I simply delete from server. I

that can clog up the server. its a problem here at the FreeNet. better to
delete when filtered out instead of waiting.

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Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
The rest sit around and make snide comments.

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