Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:47:30 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: spam, spam, and more spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I have, in the last couple of years, spammed the address list at my
daughter's school on behalf of their "Winterfest" (*not* Christmas!)
fundraiser craft show.  Fortunately, no one complained.  But it would have
been pretty inconvenient being restricted to 50 bcc's at a shot.  We felt
that it was a reasonably legitimate use of email, but that view is
obviously debatable.

My email package of choice is Eudora, which provides relatively flexible
filtering.  I currently filter on something like 110 text strings--more,
actually, since that's the number of filters, and some are doubles.  Many
of these simply route certain mail into folders of choice so I don't have
to do it manually while reading.   What actually reaches my inbox is
remaining unfiltered spam and the occasional unexpected correspondence from
friends.  Notably effective filter phrases are "nigeria," "congo," and "zaire."

Barry