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Antispam. Aren’t We All! Don’t You Just Hate It?
Antispam. Aren’t we all! Don’t you just hate it? You’ve got enough to do without having to sift through a bunch of worthless, or worse yet, offensive junk e-mails in your Inbox.
So what can be done about it? What antispam procedures and software really work?
Spam filtering software is the first stop in your antispam campaign, but in some ways it’s the easiest to subvert.
What this antispam tool does is tell your e-mail system to look for designated clue words – sex, nude, porn, for example – and to eliminate the messages that contain these clue words. Of course, there are easy ways to get around these antispam tactics. Did you ever see a message that comes through with the word sex spelled s*e*x? Well, that asterisk method has circumvented your spam filter – or the spam filter of your Internet and e-mail provider.
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