Effective SPAM filters... help...

[Guest]

I keep receiving SPAM with similar characteristics. i.e.:
subject: Re: PhDParamacy news
subject: Re: P9Kharamacy news
subject: Re: news
subject: Re: Ph8iaramacy news
etc.
I have Outlook 2000 and with a rule like "Re:*news" in the subject I could
very easily filter most of the SPAM I receive. Problem is that Outlook 2000
doesn't recognize "*". Is there some other boolean rule or something I could
do to make these messages disappear?
Very frustrated here...

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

SpamBayes from sourceforge.net.

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Dario Ferlin asked:

| I keep receiving SPAM with similar characteristics. i.e.:
| subject: Re: PhDParamacy news
| subject: Re: P9Kharamacy news
| subject: Re: news
| subject: Re: Ph8iaramacy news
| etc.
| I have Outlook 2000 and with a rule like "Re:*news" in the subject I
| could very easily filter most of the SPAM I receive. Problem is that
| Outlook 2000 doesn't recognize "*". Is there some other boolean rule
| or something I could do to make these messages disappear?
| Very frustrated here...

 

[Pat Willener]

You cannot use wildcard characters in Outlook rules. Better get an
efficient spam filter.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I keep receiving SPAM with similar characteristics. i.e.:
subject: Re: PhDParamacy news
subject: Re: P9Kharamacy news
subject: Re: news
subject: Re: Ph8iaramacy news
etc.
I have Outlook 2000 and with a rule like "Re:*news" in the subject I
could very easily filter most of the SPAM I receive. Problem is that
Outlook 2000 doesn't recognize "*". Is there some other boolean rule
or something I could do to make these messages disappear?
Very frustrated here...

Create a rule that looks for "armacy news". Outlook's rules look for
substrings. For example, looking for "corn" with a rule will find messages
containing "cornpone", "cornucopia", "acorn" and "unicorn" as well.

 

[richardhaven65]

Spam Bully has worked good for me with this kind of stuff. Then set it
to auto delete and it will eat it right up.

 

[Guest]

I have to say thanks a million to Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook].

I check out SpamBayes from sourceforge.net and the plug-in I downloaded
works a charm. Excellent! I have even passed it around to my work colleagues
and friends.

The sun has begun shining again!

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