Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Dave Bugg wrote:
>
>> Kent wrote:
>>> "Cindy" > wrote in message
>>> . ..
>>>> Hi group,
>>>> I use Outlook Express as my newsreader. I used to read the group
>>>> and recently returned. But the Spam!!!! There is so much. Any
>>>> help on how to filter out the spam??? Comcast is my ISP and as I
>>>> stated I use Outlook Express to download the messages. Cindy
>>> I think most of us have the same problem. This NG is being
>>> destroyed by spam. Senders are changing their names daily in some
>>> fashion and blocking doesn't work, at least for me. Dave Bugg said
>>> recently he is blocking all gmail. I wonder what effect that has
>>> had.
>>
>> It has eliminated a good 90% of the spam, and a bit of additional
>> filtering has eliminated all but a few per week.
>>
>> Just add @gmail.com to the "filter by 'From' " category
>
> Simplify. gmail isn't enough? Are you worried about blocking
> gmail.net, gmail.org, gmail.tv, gmail.ca, gmail.......well, you get
> the picture.
>
I'm with Dave on this one. While it's true people also spam from yahoo &
hotmail, most of it lately comes from gmail.com users. Most of them are too
stupid to munge their addresses. The one thing I really like about Windows
Mail (which replaces OE) is it provides the ability for me to block out the
gmail.com domain BUT I can add specific people to my Safe Senders list. So
even if they have gmail as their mail client I can add them and see their
posts. Or not It's not difficult to add the other spammers to the
blocked senders list.

Jill

Jill