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rules not working consistently
Ok, Outlook 2003.
I am getting a ton of junk mail for various medications (you know the medication that comes in a blue diamond shaped tablet) (see the last paragraph of this post). So I created a "rule" to delete any incoming message with in the subject. But the rule works inconsistently. Most such messages do get deleted, but not all of them. And I can't figure out why it's inconsistent. There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Why does it only get rid of about 80% of such target messages, while maybe 20% do not get deleted (it's not because of some weird characters in the subject because, remember, if I manually "run rule now", it does delete the messages that were not automatically deleted). Funny story, btw .... I have been trying to post this message for 2 weeks. It would NEVER post. I finally figured it out; in the message, I was spelling out the actual name of the drug that comes in a blue pill. Apparently, somewhere, there is a filter for this newsgroup that blocks messages which contain that word. I understand the point, BUT ..... sometimes, the word does appear in a message that isn't Spam. It's worse ... even after removing the vee-word, that wasn't enough. My post also had the name of the condition that it treats (2-letter abbreviation starting with e). Apparently that is blocked also. |
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Well that drug does come with a lot of spam. What you get is what you get (I know
exactly which one ) Nobody's fault but yours. Using that drug and ordering it on line will get you these results. You can start configuring rules from here to eternity and it will not get it stopped. Too many variables . Too too many. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... Ok, Outlook 2003. I am getting a ton of junk mail for various medications (you know the medication that comes in a blue diamond shaped tablet) (see the last paragraph of this post). So I created a "rule" to delete any incoming message with in the subject. But the rule works inconsistently. Most such messages do get deleted, but not all of them. And I can't figure out why it's inconsistent. There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Why does it only get rid of about 80% of such target messages, while maybe 20% do not get deleted (it's not because of some weird characters in the subject because, remember, if I manually "run rule now", it does delete the messages that were not automatically deleted). Funny story, btw .... I have been trying to post this message for 2 weeks. It would NEVER post. I finally figured it out; in the message, I was spelling out the actual name of the drug that comes in a blue pill. Apparently, somewhere, there is a filter for this newsgroup that blocks messages which contain that word. I understand the point, BUT .... sometimes, the word does appear in a message that isn't Spam. It's worse ... even after removing the vee-word, that wasn't enough. My post also had the name of the condition that it treats (2-letter abbreviation starting with e). Apparently that is blocked also. |
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I have never ordered that drug online, and virtually everyone gets those
messages at some level. But yesterday I got over 2,000 of them, which I chalk up to the trigger date of conficker. Peter Foldes wrote: Well that drug does come with a lot of spam. What you get is what you get (I know exactly which one ) Nobody's fault but yours. Using that drug and ordering it on line will get you these results. You can start configuring rules from here to eternity and it will not get it stopped. Too many variables . Too too many. |
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Maybe you did not order it but for sure you opened it
-- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... I have never ordered that drug online, and virtually everyone gets those messages at some level. But yesterday I got over 2,000 of them, which I chalk up to the trigger date of conficker. Peter Foldes wrote: Well that drug does come with a lot of spam. What you get is what you get (I know exactly which one ) Nobody's fault but yours. Using that drug and ordering it on line will get you these results. You can start configuring rules from here to eternity and it will not get it stopped. Too many variables . Too too many. |
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Well, two point:
First, I received over 2,000 messages for that drug on Wednesday. That was the trigger date for the confictor (?) virus. It was also, independently, April fools day. But, as to your point: I've never ordered that or any similar drugs on the internet. And, generally, I have never opened E-Mails offering such drugs, I just delete them (in most cases, they go automatically into my junk mail). But, ok, sometimes you don't know that it is a "drug offer" until after you open it. SO WHAT? Why should that matter, whether you open it or not? I never click on anything within the message, and I don't allow "receipts" to be sent that I have opened or deleted that or any other message. And I have an active outgoing firewall. I get a few (perhaps a dozen) such messages every day, but got 2,000 on Wednesday. I believe that there is nothing exceptional about me, but I have been on the internet and EXTREMELY active for more than a decade with the same E-Mail address. I believe that everyone with my level of activity gets such messages, and in fact that most people with a similar history would get far more. However, one thing I have done is that I have turned off ***ALL*** filtering of messages by my ISP (because I discovered that they were filtering out a small number of important, legitimate messages by accident). So I actually see and receive all of those messages, while I suspect that most people don't ever receive them and consequently never see them (and don't know that they are not seeing them) because most ISPs have their own filtering software before such messages would ever get to you. In my case, my ISP (time-warner) does this automatically, they don't notify you that they are doing it, you have to "opt out", and most users don't even know that the ISP is "pre-filtering" their E-Mail for both virus' and spam. I didn't know it for years, until I missed critical E-Mails from a credit card company that the ISP mistakenly filtered as "spam". Peter Foldes wrote: Maybe you did not order it but for sure you opened it |
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There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I
"run rule now", Junk mail runs before regular rules. As long as it's not leaving messages in the inbox, the rule is working. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... Ok, Outlook 2003. I am getting a ton of junk mail for various medications (you know the medication that comes in a blue diamond shaped tablet) (see the last paragraph of this post). So I created a "rule" to delete any incoming message with in the subject. But the rule works inconsistently. Most such messages do get deleted, but not all of them. And I can't figure out why it's inconsistent. There is nothing wrong with rule; if I go into the Junk Mail Folder, and I "run rule now", it gets rid of those messages in the Junk Mail Folder with the medication's name in the subject. But why didn't it do that in the first place? Why does it only get rid of about 80% of such target messages, while maybe 20% do not get deleted (it's not because of some weird characters in the subject because, remember, if I manually "run rule now", it does delete the messages that were not automatically deleted). Funny story, btw .... I have been trying to post this message for 2 weeks. It would NEVER post. I finally figured it out; in the message, I was spelling out the actual name of the drug that comes in a blue pill. Apparently, somewhere, there is a filter for this newsgroup that blocks messages which contain that word. I understand the point, BUT .... sometimes, the word does appear in a message that isn't Spam. It's worse ... even after removing the vee-word, that wasn't enough. My post also had the name of the condition that it treats (2-letter abbreviation starting with e). Apparently that is blocked also. |
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