After becoming thoroughly disgusted at the sheer volume of SPAM I receive every week - literally HUNDREDS - usually Asian stuff that displays in gibberish, I think I've hit upon a good solution!
I inspected the post titles and sender's name, and tho' they are in gibberish - strange upper/lower case letters on caps and lower case, and LOTS of accent marks - I was able to determine that a half dozen or so characters were coming up very consistently.
Since I run Outlook Express, version 6, I was able to select those specific characters and place them in my message filter - both to be killed automatically as they arrive, and also to have a COPY of each message automatically forwarded to my ISP (abuse@gte.net)... (heh heh heh)
I also sent an Email to my ISP via their "abuse" department, allerting them to my unhappiness at their apparent inability to filter this obvious SPAM from their users - and letting them know I was now forwarding the stuff to THEM for THEIR enjoyment and amusement...
SO far, not a single Asian SPAM gibberish message has made it past my filter...
Wonder how long I'll still have an account with GTE... ?

I inspected the post titles and sender's name, and tho' they are in gibberish - strange upper/lower case letters on caps and lower case, and LOTS of accent marks - I was able to determine that a half dozen or so characters were coming up very consistently.
Since I run Outlook Express, version 6, I was able to select those specific characters and place them in my message filter - both to be killed automatically as they arrive, and also to have a COPY of each message automatically forwarded to my ISP (abuse@gte.net)... (heh heh heh)
I also sent an Email to my ISP via their "abuse" department, allerting them to my unhappiness at their apparent inability to filter this obvious SPAM from their users - and letting them know I was now forwarding the stuff to THEM for THEIR enjoyment and amusement...
SO far, not a single Asian SPAM gibberish message has made it past my filter...
Wonder how long I'll still have an account with GTE... ?


