Ralph said:
thanks Brian, well, regarding question #1 - I suppose I don't really
know how the junk senders list works, I get a lot of garbage/spam
email every day and I religiously add each one to the junk senders
list, I guess I don't really understand what adding the email to the
list does, it doesnt block another email coming from people on that
list, does it?
The Junk Senders list in OL 2000 is simply a text file, Junk Senders.txt.
Outlook 2000 compares the sender address of each incoming message with the
entries in that file. If any of the entries in the list are substrings of
the sender address, Outlook will color the subject line red (by default) so
you can identify the message. The "Adult Senders" list works similarly,
coloring the subject green (IIRC) by default. You can also select an action
Outlook will perform, like move to particular folder, instead of the
coloring action.
Since junk mail senders constantly change the sending address, continually
adding those addresses to the list will have no appreciable effect on the
amount of junk the list will identify. You can improve its hit rate if the
sender domain remains a constant. For example, if mail arrives from the
various addresses (e-mail address removed), (e-mail address removed), and (e-mail address removed),
you can simply add "domain" to the Junk Senders list and it will catch all
three.
regarding #2, thanks for the link, but I'm confused as to what/where
to download what I need, I would really appreciate just a little bit
more specific direction in that regard
Read this:
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html and use this to
download the installer:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/spambayes/spambayes-1.0.4.exe?download or
this:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/spambayes/spambayes-1.1a3.exe?modtime=1156508385&big_mirror=0
(for the latest alpha release)
