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Old 27th May 2003 | 09:01
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Keef

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I've found a good solution. I have all my incoming mail routed via Spamcop. That sent me a message yesterday about a virus with a forged "from" address of [email protected] that it had shredded. Several times, in fact.

The Spamcop filter can be "personalised" in a variety of ways, including personal blacklists and whitelists. I have all e-mail from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Brazil and Argentina treated as Spam, as well as verizon.net and some other ISPs of that ilk.

I get very little spam indeed with that setup. Every couple of days I check the "filters" to see if there's anything genuine in there, then "spamcop" the rest.

Sadly, I blacklisted hotmail.com - which meant an e-mail from AerBabe sat in the filters for a day or so :-( She's "whitelisted" now...
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