From: ag221 (Howard Eisenberger)
Newsgroups: ncf.admin.net-abuse.discussion
Subject: Re: Is there any point in keeping this address?
Date: 13 Jan 2001 19:46:08 GMT
Organization: Gonif Systems, NCF, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <93qba0$9pg$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>

Derek Tam wrote:
>
> Jan 8-12:
> 34 emails.  All spam.  Add this to my previous stats and wow, that's
> a lot of spam.  More than Hormel makes I'm sure.
> 
> Maybe I'll just stop checking my NCF mail altogether since nothing
> useful ever arrives in this mailbox anymore.  Maybe I'll cancel
> my account since all I use it for is newsgroups really, and only NCF
> ones at that.

The elm filter program at ">go elm #5" works pretty well for me.
You don't have to use the elm mailreader to use it. I've put a
copy of my "filter-rules" file and some other information at
<URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/filter/>.

I filter the junk to a junk folder (22 of 26 so far this month),
but you could just as easily send it to /dev/null.

I leave any legitimate mail in my Freeport mailbox and use finger
to check if I have any new mail. I can then use elm to read it or
bounce it over to Freemail or another POP mailbox and download it
from there. One can forward it directly in the "filter-rules", but
I find the format of the forwarded mail a bit ugly.

Howard E.

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