Help me get rid of Bull's Eye Gold, please

[Reeder Norm]

I've tried a variation of the below with Netscape's mail.  Use the filter
feature to route all of your listserv, or regular newsletters etc. to your
Inbox (one filter for each subscription).  The last filter you use is: if
the incoming message is not personally addressed to you i.e.
norm at torrance.etc  then file it in the trash.  This has been a pretty
accurate filter.  At home I get about three spams a day and for the last six
months, they haven't wound up in my Inbox.  Almost no spam message is
personally addressed to you in the "To:" box.  They seem to use mailing list
names that stand for thousands of addresses.
Thanks
Norm

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	From: 	Thomas Dowling[SMTP:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
	Sent: 	Tuesday, April 21, 1998 9:24 AM
	To: 	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject: 	RE: Help me get rid of Bull's Eye Gold, please

	Unfortunately the Bull's Eye spam always comes from a different,
forged
	address (although it always seems to go through comanche.net or
	comanche.dk at some point).  It also comes without any subject line
to
	filter on.

	One technique that has varying degrees of success is to create a new
	folder (mine is called "Real Inbox") and set your filters to refile
	incoming mail to the new folder if it has your own e-mail address or
a
	list you subscribe to in the To: field.  With a little refinement,
this
	can get virtually everything you really want into the new folder and
leave
	almost all the spam, including Bull's Eye, in the original Inbox.


	Thomas Dowling
	OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
	tdowling at ohiolink.edu




	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
	> [mailto:web4lib at library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Rick Levine
	> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 11:11 AM
	> To: Multiple recipients of list
	> Subject: RE: Help me get rid of Bull's Eye Gold, please
	>
	>
	> Your email reader should allow you to define "rules" or
	> "filters" to govern
	> the disposition of the mail you receive.  You would define a
	> filter so that
	> any message from <tvt9977 at msn.com> will automatically be deleted
when
	> received or, better yet, deleted from the server (so that it
	> doesn't even
	> get downloaded).
	>
	>
	> ---------------
	> Rick Levine, Technical Specialist
	> Central Massachusetts Regional Library System
	> 3 Salem Square, Worcester, MA 01608-2074
	> voice: 508 799-1684    fax: 508 799-1611
	> rlevine at cwmars.org
	>
	>
	> > -----Original Message-----
	> > From: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
	> > [mailto:web4lib at library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Linda Woods
Hyman
	> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 9:14 AM
	> > To: Multiple recipients of list
	> > Subject: Help me get rid of Bull's Eye Gold, please
	> >
	> >
	> > Howdy! Does anyone know how I can stop getting this *&&^#$#@^
	> email from
	> > Bull's Eye Gold. I get a message from them at least once a
	> day. Usually I
	> > can spot it before I open it because the return address is
	> all numbers.
	> > Anyone have the solution?
	> >
	> > >Return-Path: <tvt9977 at msn.com>
	> > >From: tvt9977 <tvt9977 at msn.com>
	> > >To: <lgifford at navix.net>
	> > >Reply-To: tvt9977 at msn.com
	> > >>EMAIL MARKETING WORKS!!
	> > >
	> > >Bull's Eye Gold is the PREMIER email address collection tool.
	> > >This program allows you to develop TARGETED lists of email
	> > >addresses.
	> > Linda Woods Hyman
	> > Pacific Bell Education First
	> > Department of Educational Technology
	> > San Diego State University
	> > San Diego  CA  92182
	> > (619) 594-4414
	> > http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired
	> >
	>
	>