Chapter 8 Controlling Your E-mail Volume

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Chapter 8Controlling Your E-mail Volume

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Content

• Advantages of Filtering E-mail
• Controlling E-mail Volume Reducing Spam
• Filtering Messages
• Eudora, Outlook 98, Outlook Express,
• Netscape Messenger, Pegasus, AOL, Pine.

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Advantages of Filtering E-mail

• How Filtering Works
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• Filtering Mailing List Messages
• Toaddress? ?? ??? ?
• Ex.) mailing list ??? click-L_at_ListService.net? ?
  To ? ? ??? ???? ??? ?? ?? ???
• ???? ?? folder?? ????? ?? ??

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Controlling E-mail Volume Reducing Spam(1)

• Spam? ?? ??? ??
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• unsubscribing ??? ?? ? ?
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• spam???? ??? filters? ?? ?
• Usenet newsgroups?? ?? ???? ??? ??
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Controlling E-mail Volume Reducing Spam(2)

• Stopping Spammers
• http//www.cauce.org
• http//www.abuse.net
• http//www.nags.org
• Reporting Egregious Scams
• http//www.ftc.gov ?? ucd_at_ftc.gov (USA)
• Sending Spam Dont do it!

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Stopping Spammers
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Controlling E-mail Volume Reducing Spam(3)

• Defining E-mail Abuse
• Legal Issues

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Defining E-mail Abuse

• Bulk postal mail? bulk e-mail? ???
• bulk postal mail ??? ??? ?? ??
• bulk e-mail ?? ??? ???? ????
• ??? ??? ???? E-mail? ?? ? ??.
• Subscribe to mailing list
• Request information or opinions from mailing list
  or newsgroup
• Send e-mail to an address to get more information
• Provide an e-mail address on a Web site that
  explicitly states that the address will be used
  to send your information

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What Are the Legal Issues?

• ???? ?? ??? ??? bulk mail? ???? ?? ??? ??? ? ??
  ?? ?? ? ??? ??.
• ISP??? bulk mail? ???? ??
• e-mail? ???? ?? ?? ????? ??? ???? ???.
• Ex. truth in headers? header information?? ??.
• fraudulent e-mail Federal Trade Commission ??
• Spammer? ?? ??? ??? return address? ?????? ???
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Filters Messages in Eudora 4.3
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Sending Autoreplies in Eudora(1)- Sponsored and
Paid modes only
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Sending Autoreplies in Eudora(2)
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Filters Messages in Outlook Express
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Netscape Messenger
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Pegasus
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AOL(America Online)
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Pine (Program for Internet News Email)
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Pine (Program for Internet News Email)
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Filtering Messages in UNIX System

• Sorting Incoming Mail
• procmail mail sorting system? UNIX mail system?
  ??? ?.
• Creating Filtering Criteria
• Create file .promailrc in your home directory
• 0 (beginning of a recipe)
• criteria (ex. From click-l_at_ListService.net)
• Mail/folder name (clicklist)
• Title? make money? ?? ?? ??? ?????
• make money

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Sending Autoreplies

• UNIX program Vacation
• automated reply ??(once a week)
• How it work
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• Line 1. From ??? ?? e-mail ??? ??
• Line 2. Subject ? ??? ??? ??? ? ?? ??, ? ??
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• Home directory? message ????, .vacation.msg? ??
• Prompt? vacation i? ???? ????? ??
• Home directory? text file? ?? ???? .forward? ??
• ? ??? ?? ??? ?? /username, /usr/bin/vacation
• ???? ???? .forward file ??