[OPLINTECH] help! my mailbox was overtaken by offensive spam

[Chad Neeper (list)]

Lynne,

The Thunderbird spam/junk filters should be helping you out
significantly. Are the junk e-mails being correctly labeled as such or
are they not getting labeled correctly? If the filters are missing a lot
of junk and you are diligently marking junk e-mails as junk and ensuring
that good e-mails are not marked junk, then perhaps you need to reset
your junk mail filter and re-train it.

It can take 1 or 2 weeks of training to get the junk mail filters really
going well, but once it's trained, it should catch the majority of your
junk mail. It's important, however, to ensure that junk mail is marked
as such and good email is not marked junk. Furthermore, you can have the
junk automatically moved to a "junk" folder and then deleted after an
arbitrary number of days. I use 30 days to give me plenty of time to
catch anything that might have been (very, very rarely) mislabeled as junk.

Chad

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Chad Neeper
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Lynne Welch wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> are some of you also having trouble with your OPLIN dot ORG email 
> accounts? I ask because the ratio of offensive emails I have been 
> receiving for the past month or two has gotten completely out of hand, 
> even though I'm using the Thunderbird email filters to the best of my 
> ability. The amount of spam I receive in a day for Viagra and other 
> medications for unmentionable enhancements, as well as for stocks etc., 
> is ridiculous enough (sometimes 95% of my email is junk!), but many of 
> the subject lines now displaying would be more suited to dialog in a 
> porn flick and I'm embarrassed to access my email in a public place.
>
> Can someone please suggest a way to clean this up more effectively at my 
> end, since OPLIN will not filter? My Director and I would both be grateful.
>
> Lynne
> Lynne Welch
> Herrick Memorial Library
> Wellington OH 44090
> 440-647-2120
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>
>   

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Chad Neeper
Senior Systems Engineer

Level 9 Networks
740-548-8070 (voice)
866-214-6607 (fax)

--   Full LAN/WAN consulting services   --
-- Specialized in libraries and schools --