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Jeff Chapman
Many of you must have noticed that there's a
major increase in spam on this forum. For Entourage
users who are reading the forum posts through their
newsgroup viewer, this can be a problem - Entourage
does not allow posts from NNTP servers to be locally
deleted on the user's machine.
However, I noticed a pattern in the spam this evening,
and I'd like to offer a solution.
Try adding a rule to Entourage using the Tools - Rules...
command, click the News tab and then the New icon,
give the rule a name, and add the following criterion:
From is <>
Then, add an action, "Do not show article", and click OK.
Finally, select all of the posts you've downloaded from
the newsgroup, select Message - Apply Rule... and the
name of your new rule. This will effectively weed out all
spam from your view that does not have a sender name in
the mail... which is a pattern that this junk mail seems
to follow.
This worked extremely well for me - hope it helps someone
else. In the meantime, let's hope that Microsoft implements
a similar server-side tactic to weed out the crap for good!
Jeff
major increase in spam on this forum. For Entourage
users who are reading the forum posts through their
newsgroup viewer, this can be a problem - Entourage
does not allow posts from NNTP servers to be locally
deleted on the user's machine.
However, I noticed a pattern in the spam this evening,
and I'd like to offer a solution.
Try adding a rule to Entourage using the Tools - Rules...
command, click the News tab and then the New icon,
give the rule a name, and add the following criterion:
From is <>
Then, add an action, "Do not show article", and click OK.
Finally, select all of the posts you've downloaded from
the newsgroup, select Message - Apply Rule... and the
name of your new rule. This will effectively weed out all
spam from your view that does not have a sender name in
the mail... which is a pattern that this junk mail seems
to follow.
This worked extremely well for me - hope it helps someone
else. In the meantime, let's hope that Microsoft implements
a similar server-side tactic to weed out the crap for good!
Jeff
- when the newsgroup spam reaches a certain level