1075 Spam messages

Post by **Eric** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:27 pm

That's right, over the weekend I received 1,075 spam messages to my work account. The worthless idiots in ITS tell me there is nothing they can do and it is a network wide problem. We use Outlook by the way. I ain't no genius, but I think I could do a better job of filtering these things out. At least write a filter for the messages that are obviously SPAM. I get some of the same messages 10 times a day. In fact on average I get one spam message every minute. WTF! They tell me they can't even sort out the messages that are coming from inside the network. WTF!

Post by **Wes** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:42 pm

I get around 15-20 pieces of spam per day, our spam filter catches most of them, and usually less then 5 make it to my inbox. I also get false positives, where mail I need, ends up in the spam folder, so I have to look through that every couple days anyway.

There are options out there for desktop spam protection if your IT won't support the server versions.

Post by **lordjim_2001** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:52 pm

Transy just instituted the SpamBayes add on for Outlook when they upgraded everyone to outlook 2003. Pretty slick, no spam in the inbox and no false positives yet.

Post by **ynot** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:26 pm

The spam filter is the best thing about MSN but it takes it a while to learn what you want and don't want.

Post by **Alan Evil** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:53 pm

My server uses cPanel X and has a built in spam detector which means a spam message gets through every couple of days. Since I've had a web presence since 1999 and have web addresses posted on my site and others, I think it works pretty well. The filter uses spamcop and a couple of other sources.

I have one unprotected e-mail address and it gets nothing but spam. Funny thing is that I've never given that address out or used it to send e-mail.