New Spam Devilment

[Ken Peck]

The last couple of days I've received junk-e-mail that is not identified as
such. Normally when this happens in Windows Mail I click on the message,
select "Junk-E-mail" and then "Add sender to blocked sender's list" or "Add
sender's domain to blocked sender's list."

But I have recently received a couple of messages which somehow or other are
turning off the Junk-E-mail options. That is really dirty pool.

It is possible to go open a message, go to tools and add the domain or
sender to the blocked list. But that is pretty inconvenient, especially since
there is no easy way to cut and past the address of the junk mail.

I hope Microsoft will find a way to prevent spammers from doing this.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

It's not a Microsoft problem; it is an internet problem. The internet was
designed by intelligent people that don't spam or do other malicious things.
The email system was not designed to prevent spam and other malicious
things. Therefore it is not possible to reliably determine if a message is
spam, with emphasis on reliably. Spammers can spoof email addresses and do
other tricky things. When you add a sender to the blocked list, you might
cause messages that you do want to be sent to the spam folder.

Which would you prefer to have? False positives or false negatives? A false
positive means that messages go to the junk folder that you actually want;
it could be a very important message. Or would you prefer false negatives
and get some spam in your inbox?

 

[Richard in AZ]

The last couple of days I've received junk-e-mail that is not identified as
such. Normally when this happens in Windows Mail I click on the message,
select "Junk-E-mail" and then "Add sender to blocked sender's list" or "Add
sender's domain to blocked sender's list."

But I have recently received a couple of messages which somehow or other are
turning off the Junk-E-mail options. That is really dirty pool.

It is possible to go open a message, go to tools and add the domain or
sender to the blocked list. But that is pretty inconvenient, especially since
there is no easy way to cut and past the address of the junk mail.

I hope Microsoft will find a way to prevent spammers from doing this.

What sand pile have you had your head in?
The spammers are always working on ways to get around your, or your ISP's, filters.
By the "blocking senders" does not work on spammers, they never use the same address twice.
Blocking senders only works on "Uncle Harry" who send you bad jokes and never changes his address.