rcjordan - 1:37 am on Apr 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

>including 5MB PPT presentations and assorted attachments

Besides being a nuisance, that's the real problem for those on dial-up since a large attachment can criple their mail for minutes at a time.

My offices are now aggressively double-filtering, once at the server using a program available for a free trial run at spameater.net. At that level, we're programmatically scanning for the very obvious spam and auto-delete it there without ever having to download it. (I have no affiliation whatsoever with spameater)

Then it is filtered again at the desktop where it is sorted into Trash and Junk -the difference being that while anything in Junk is highly suspect, it isn't auto-deleted upon closing the email program (eudora 3.0.6).

Since the negative filtering rules are aggressive, I spent a good deal of time working on the rules for emails that should pass automatically to the inbox -even if they happen to use a "certain death" word. Of course, these positive rules need to be first in the sequence.

We're living much easier, FreeBee.