I have set up one of the mail rules as a spam filter and added all the usual
words but I can't find any help on these questions...

How does the word filter list work? For example, if I put "stock" in the
word list, does it also filter "stocks"? And would it also filter
"comstock" or "stockyard"?

I notice about 1 out of 100-200 "real" emails get thrown in with the spam.
What I would like to do is..... automatically send an email to each email
that this rule picks up as spam, but (and this is a big butt) send that
email from a different email address (like yahoo, etc) so that I don't keep
feeding the spammers. My reply would tell them that their email was
detected as spam by my filter and to send it again with different words in
the subject line or contact me by phone. If it was an accidental spam
label, they would have my phone number and would not give it out in the
email reply.

Thanks!!

Fred

A) Stock *will* pick up on any word containing that arrangement of letters.

B) Do not reply to Spammers. They probably won't get it because their
address is most likely munged, but if they did, all you would be doing is
verify that your address is legitimate.

See these links for some ideas.

Some Message Rule Ideas:
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

Some tips:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

Message Rules not working?:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Fred" <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote in message
news:W%0kf.1032$xg1.968@trnddc03...
>I have set up one of the mail rules as a spam filter and added all the
>usual
> words but I can't find any help on these questions...
>
> How does the word filter list work? For example, if I put "stock" in the
> word list, does it also filter "stocks"? And would it also filter
> "comstock" or "stockyard"?
>
> I notice about 1 out of 100-200 "real" emails get thrown in with the spam.
> What I would like to do is..... automatically send an email to each email
> that this rule picks up as spam, but (and this is a big butt) send that
> email from a different email address (like yahoo, etc) so that I don't
> keep
> feeding the spammers. My reply would tell them that their email was
> detected as spam by my filter and to send it again with different words in
> the subject line or contact me by phone. If it was an accidental spam
> label, they would have my phone number and would not give it out in the
> email reply.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Fred
>
>
>
>

Thanks Bruce.

I understand about replying to spammers, but do you know if am I able to
send an auto-reply using a yahoo address using OE6 instead?

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:u4ZjOW39FHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> A) Stock *will* pick up on any word containing that arrangement of
letters.
>
> B) Do not reply to Spammers. They probably won't get it because their
> address is most likely munged, but if they did, all you would be doing is
> verify that your address is legitimate.
>
> See these links for some ideas.
>
> Some Message Rule Ideas:
> http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
>
> Some tips:
> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
>
> Message Rules not working?:
> http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS MVP - Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "Fred" <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote in message
> news:W%0kf.1032$xg1.968@trnddc03...
> >I have set up one of the mail rules as a spam filter and added all the
> >usual
> > words but I can't find any help on these questions...
> >
> > How does the word filter list work? For example, if I put "stock" in
the
> > word list, does it also filter "stocks"? And would it also filter
> > "comstock" or "stockyard"?
> >
> > I notice about 1 out of 100-200 "real" emails get thrown in with the
spam.
> > What I would like to do is..... automatically send an email to each
email
> > that this rule picks up as spam, but (and this is a big butt) send that
> > email from a different email address (like yahoo, etc) so that I don't
> > keep
> > feeding the spammers. My reply would tell them that their email was
> > detected as spam by my filter and to send it again with different words
in
> > the subject line or contact me by phone. If it was an accidental spam
> > label, they would have my phone number and would not give it out in the
> > email reply.
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

I'm not sure if you can do that or not. Let's see what someone else has to
say.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Fred" <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote in message
news:8n1kf.233$wF.72@trnddc08...
> Thanks Bruce.
>
> I understand about replying to spammers, but do you know if am I able to
> send an auto-reply using a yahoo address using OE6 instead?
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:u4ZjOW39FHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> A) Stock *will* pick up on any word containing that arrangement of
> letters.
>>
>> B) Do not reply to Spammers. They probably won't get it because their
>> address is most likely munged, but if they did, all you would be doing is
>> verify that your address is legitimate.
>>
>> See these links for some ideas.
>>
>> Some Message Rule Ideas:
>> http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
>>
>> Some tips:
>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
>>
>> Message Rules not working?:
>> http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS MVP - Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Fred" <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote in message
>> news:W%0kf.1032$xg1.968@trnddc03...
>> >I have set up one of the mail rules as a spam filter and added all the
>> >usual
>> > words but I can't find any help on these questions...
>> >
>> > How does the word filter list work? For example, if I put "stock" in
> the
>> > word list, does it also filter "stocks"? And would it also filter
>> > "comstock" or "stockyard"?
>> >
>> > I notice about 1 out of 100-200 "real" emails get thrown in with the
> spam.
>> > What I would like to do is..... automatically send an email to each
> email
>> > that this rule picks up as spam, but (and this is a big butt) send that
>> > email from a different email address (like yahoo, etc) so that I don't
>> > keep
>> > feeding the spammers. My reply would tell them that their email was
>> > detected as spam by my filter and to send it again with different words
> in
>> > the subject line or contact me by phone. If it was an accidental spam
>> > label, they would have my phone number and would not give it out in the
>> > email reply.
>> >
>> > Thanks!!
>> >
>> > Fred
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>