Digital BW, The Print

>[snip] So, sorry for "complaining". But while I'm complaining, I'll add to
>that -- people who sign their posts with only their first names.

And I'm sorry to have given Mark Tucker and maybe others cause for 
complaint on this score. I've just signed my e-mails "Sam", mainly to 
mark the end, and have been too ignorant or insensitive to realize 
that's not enough for readers who see the posts, if at all, only on 
the web and, I guess, without access to the headers. But I'll be 
pulling my socks up and welcome any suggestions about how best to do 
that.


Mark also wrote, in another e-mail:

>That [OE block-sender] feature, just like SpellCheck, must not be 
>active in the
>Macintosh version of OE. It sure is needed.

When I went online, Opera wasn't yet available as an alternative to 
Internet Explorer, but Eudora was already available as an alternative 
to OE. And unlike OE, Eudora was already well documented in Adam C. 
Engst's first Visual Quickstart Guide on it. It's now in its second 
edition. Page 135 is especially good on filtering spam. It says his 
"trickiest" spam filter is:

From: contains aol.com unless Received: contains aol.com

which finds forged AOL return addresses by finding messages from AOL 
that never in fact passed through AOL's mail servers. Here "aol" is 
in effect a variable which might have been "yahoo", "msn", etc.

I haven't tried these because I get very little spam. And find it 
easy to delete because I'm filtering most of the mail I _do_ want - 
like posts to this list - into its own (in) mailbox. So the junk mail 
sticks out like a sore thumb in the generic "In" box.

There's another good reason to use Eudora instead of OE: you're no 
longer holding up the much larger target for the hackers to shoot at. 
After already welcoming them by using Internet Explorer as a browser: 
are there any Opera users on this list?

Sam McCandless              samcc@...