I am toying with various methods to filter spam mail. I created rules to “exclude” the common spam words, but that only worked OK. You constantly need to identify new words or phases from either the body and/or the subject. It never ends. And, it wont pick up the words in the attached Pics.
I am now considering the “inclusion” technique. Basically, creating a rule which says “if FROM is not from either my company, vendors, or friends”, then park it in spam folder. I figured 60 conditions are required for a great list. However, this method appears to require that all conditions are within a single rule. Before I enter all these, is their a Lotus limit on the number of conditions within a single rule? Any thoughts on this technique?
There are a few posts here saying that any more than one doesn’t work… there are issue for sure with multiple conditions. I can assist but due to some recent feedback regarding commerical messages here please email me so we can discuss in more detail…my address is in my profile…
Darren – no-one has any objection to you offering a commercial third-party solution in this forum if that solution will help people solve a problem. Even the product announcement you posted would have been acceptable to almost everyone here IF you had mentioned in the posting that it was a third-party commercial solution. Lord knows, if you want to get information out to the Notes/Domino community, this is the best place to do it. Just do it with some restraint (no mass replies, no everyday announcements), and make it clear in your posting that what you are offering is a commercial solution.
If you want to see what we generally consider to be responsible use of this forum for a commercial solution, take a look at some of Ben (or Benjamin – same guy) Langhinrichs’ postings. When he suggests his products as a solution, it is because there is no Notes-native way to do it (apart from the C API), and he always makes it clear that it is a third-party commercial solution. He also goes out of his way to let people know when something can be done without buying his product – which, apart from being good forum behaviour, is also good business.