wrote:
> Time Warner may be filtering anyway. What do you
> think?
My only experience with them is as a provider of Cable
TV service, so I can't really say.
I'm in a somewhat different category, and not just
because it's DSL and a different provider: for the
last couple years, I've handled most of my mail from
dedicated Webmail gateways (browser based, online),
specific to each mail account. This is evidently
quite different that having it come directly into your
email client.
On the one hand, I can see extensive attachment
filtering: all of that malware payload crap (unless it
is embedded within the body of the message) has been
stripped out by the time I see it. I sometimes open
those attachments from eCS, if I happen to be curious,
because I know that even if there was something bad
there, it couldn't affect me. But instead, I'll find
a message that the attachment was removed by
EarthLink, or whomever.
On the other hand, I see very little in the way of
spam filtering . . . because I get about a hundred or
so of them every day. Sometimes more. (That covers 3
principal mail accounts.) The best the Webmail
Gateways can do is to dump a large majority of the
suspect items into a "Bulk" (probable unwanted mail)
Folder. Curiously, a lot of the SCOUG-headered mail
gets diverted into that folder -- as false positives.
I wrote to the ISP Tech Support inquiring as to the
implementation of their filtering rules, and how I
might modify them to accept the SCOUG mail into the
Inbox, but they sent me back a non-responsive form
letter.
I see no sign that the Bayesian thingie in SeaMonkey
ever comes into play, when using the Webmail option.
Colin wrote:
> spam e-mails; some in Cyrillic, some in Asian
> fonts,
Yeah, I get a lot of that too. IDIOTS ! Can the
senders actually expect these to get anything other
than an instant Kill over here, where most of the
recipients do not read those languages ?
> and some where the "message",usually about Viagra, >
is hidden in a picture.
Uh-huh. And a very common one now is .PDFs, or
supposed e-cards from some long lost friend or
relative, which are actually attempts to plant some
spyware or "backdoor" control on (Windoze) systems,
perhaps by directing you to a rogue website, or having
the careless or the gullible click on something.
Jordan
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