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Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:31:18 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Rejected messages that I never sent

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Larry Tawa wrote:
>
> I hope that the SCOUG archives would have the email addresses
> stripped or partially disabled for SPAM considerations; especially
> after the latest, but not last, flood of SPAM.

Hi Larry,

I only speak for myself, but the dozens of articles I wrote for SCOUG in
years past still generate email to me from readers who find them via
search engines and I'd hate to miss out on helping these people. Just
last week I received a request from a "new" reader in Japan for more
info on writing device drivers based on his reading one of those
articles. I wrote back and pointed him at additional web pages that he
needed but couldn't find.

So I'd prefer that my own email addresses on the SCOUG web pages remain
intact. Yes I get spam because of them, but it's more valuable to me
that the occasional reader question get to my inbox.

For the spam problem, I use an _excellent_ spam filter called Junk Spy
that is automatically updated weekly with new spam detection clues.
Additionally, some ISPs offer the option of spam filtering to their
customers. And there are some free OS/2 spam bayesian filters such as
bogofilter and proxyc (in alpha). My personal favorite is Junk Spy
because it fits the way I work but any of these filters should be
valuable, and they can be used in combination.

And you can write your own filters. I wrote a set of filters to handle
the recent Swen virus message storm (I must have gotten 2,000 of them
the first week and still get about 20 a day) and one technical person on
this list who uses MR/2 ICE has a relatively small set of filters which
I'm told catches almost all of his spam.

Finally, although I've never used it there is a commercial OS/2 virus
filter which will catch spam containing viruses. (Apologies, I can't
remember its name.)

So I would hope that SCOUG won't arbitrarily strip all email addresses
from its online archives. Spam is manageable by filtering, and some
spam filters can even delete spam on the server (for example
SwenDeleter, Junk Spy, proxyc) so your account mailbox doesn't overflow
and your hard drive doesn't become full.

- Peter

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