On 12/30/2013 03:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote:

In the past, I've emailed friends, and my first or second posting has
gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything about it.

I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my email.  Why?  Because I own my own domain, I use my hosting company's email servers instead of my ISP's and a small number of their customers are spammers.  Whenever their spam gets above a certain threshold, her ISP blocks any email access from those servers, and cuts us off.  This is why I dislike blacklists: they're just about guaranteed to produce at least 99% false positives because they're just an exercise in throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Well this is all fascinating to me. I'm not using a mail server, just trying to keep the size of my Inbox down, since the more spam it gets the fatter it gets as well....I will be looking into all possibilities regarding this matter. I can now see that the "Allow In Just what I want & Block All Others" is the more sensible way to go about it...instead of trying to block what seems like millions of different email addresses that sometimes have the same email in it.!!


EGO II

I don't know if this may help but there is another possibility.
Much of my Inbox spam/annoying garbage emails used similar words such as BANK, DEAR, Poor Widow,  Best quality drugs, FDA approved, and any emails written in all upper case, and so forth.

I set up 3 filters, Adverts, Scams, Stuff  and in those set the Subject, From, Body and To  to Contains, then matched any of those to regularly occurring  2 or 3 word groups then set Delete from Server then Send to Trash. I have gone from hundred and more a day to almost none coming through, any that do are in the trash and are deleted on exit.
I found, by matching to a small group of words rather than one word then setting [Match any of the following] it has reduced garbage emails very significantly.

I do sometimes let the ANZ, Westpac, National bank scams through but that is so I can report these to Telstra/Bigpond and let them and the bank handle it.

Occasionally I get scam/spam which after searching seems to come from a genuine overseas web site. In that case I send the salient part of the code to the web site admin and let them deal with it.

HTH
Roger