Date:         Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:44:39 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Filtering SAS-L spam and junk
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Those who receive SAS-L as individual e-mails (not digest) and who use an
e-mail client which allows incoming message filtering, it might be of
interest to know that I have eliminated virtually all 'unwanted' SAS-L mail
by implementing a local filter which intercepts messages according to the
following rules:

"SAS-L" in the Header, together with any one or more of the following:

"click here" in body of text
"<inverted "?" (pasted from heiroglyphic message)>" in Body of text
"Nigeria" in body of text
"Africa" in body of text

I'm using those simple filter rules to move intercepted messages to a
separate folder, the header list of which I can browse before
deleting.  Those rules are catching virtually all junk, and have so far not
'caught' any legitimate SAS-L messages.

As previously discussed, 'click here' is the one that catches the vast
majority of the junk.  The inverted "?" catches the non-English character
set ones, whilst the last two are obviously specific to the 'Nigerian Scam'
and variants thereof.

Kind Regards


John

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