Kent
Sat Nov 29 11:00:12 CST 2003
Every user of the Internet, young and old, needs a very private email
address and a public email address to separate the good email from the
bad.
Private email addresses should only be given out to close friends and
family with the warning that these private email addresses should not be
given out to web sites (for example, web greeting cards or "tell a
friend" links) and that a certain someone should not put this email
address in the To: header of her daily joke mass mailing.
The public email address should be used for web sites when an email
response is required, as for example, when signing up for a web site and
receiving a password by email. After a time, when the spam load gets too
bad, this email address should be abandoned and replaced with another.
It is very important to keep Outlook Express up-to-date with patches and
to use the "read messages in plain text" option to avoid disclosing the
active status of your email addresses to spammers through the "web bug"
trick.
With all this in mind, you can create email filters to filter IN the
desired email, leaving the spam in the inbox where it can be scanned
once in a while and deleted. The easiest way to create your "filter in"
rules is to select a message in your headers pane and select "create
rule from message" which will prefill the sender information, which is
the best way to filter in your desired correspondents, and you can move
the new message to a different folder, and select "stop processing
rules".
--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
"Ned S" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:048a01c3b626$7c3cfcd0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am changing from AOL to broadband. I need to protect my
> 11 year old from all of the crap email that is sent in.
> It looks to me like the email "rules" that are available
> in O.E. can work OK but I don't think that I have the
> time or the evil imagination to think of all of the words
> and phrases that should be filtered. Is there a better
> way? Does anyone know of a source to for pre-written
> lists of objectionable words and phrases?