Junk Mail - Allow multiple emails to be hilighted and marked as j.

[Raddster]

With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most
helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email messages
and mark each of them as junk mail and send them to the blocked senders list.

It currently takes a signficant amount of time to select them individually
and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of
time.

 

[AN user]

More then just adding them to junk mail, which senders have gotten around by
changing the address a little each time, I want to forward each mail
individually.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you using Outlook 2003? With it set on high, you should not get a lot of
spam past the filters... also, adding a large number of addresses that are
only used on one message will max out the list without improving spam
filtering.

http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2004/up040930.htm#safe

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[Raddster]

Diane,

Thank you for your response. Yes, I'm using Outlook 2003 and have my spam
settings at Medium. I was concerned that too many good mails would end up in
the junk folder. However, I was unaware of the 2000 name limit. I'll set my
filter to high and see what happens.

Thanks again.
Steve

Are you using Outlook 2003? With it set on high, you should not get a lot of
spam past the filters... also, adding a large number of addresses that are
only used on one message will max out the list without improving spam
filtering.

http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2004/up040930.htm#safe

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most
helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email
messages
and mark each of them as junk mail and send them to the blocked senders
list.

It currently takes a signficant amount of time to select them individually
and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts of
time.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Check the folder daily for a couple of weeks, then less often should be ok.
I had to add about 20 names/domains (mostly for newsletters or ads from
places like best buy) to my Safe list as a result but that is so much easier
than adding spammers to a block list.


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Diane,

Thank you for your response. Yes, I'm using Outlook 2003 and have my spam
settings at Medium. I was concerned that too many good mails would end up
in
the junk folder. However, I was unaware of the 2000 name limit. I'll set
my
filter to high and see what happens.

Thanks again.
Steve

Are you using Outlook 2003? With it set on high, you should not get a lot
of
spam past the filters... also, adding a large number of addresses that
are
only used on one message will max out the list without improving spam
filtering.

http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2004/up040930.htm#safe

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

With the ever increasing volume of spam and junk mail, it would be most
helpful if outlook would allow the user to highlight multiple email
messages
and mark each of them as junk mail and send them to the blocked senders
list.

It currently takes a signficant amount of time to select them
individually
and mark them as junk. Having this feature will save enormous amounts
of
time.

 

[The Blue Max]

What you'd like to do is forward the email back to the sender! If they spam
a million messages, hit their servers with a million of their own forwarded
messages or automated replies! Dreamin' on . . .

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And what about all the innocent bystanders' whose addresses have been harvested by spammers and then used to spoof the From addresses in junk messages? You're proposing to forward messages back to them? How does that help anyone?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

What you'd like to do is forward the email back to the sender!

Since in the vast majority of cases the sender is bogus or belongs to an
innocent victim whose address has hijacked, how would propose to do that and
how would it help?

 

[The Blue Max]

Sue, I was humoring everyone, no need to take it seriously! What you say is
obviously true, but it sure would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if
anyone ever found a way to do this without hurting other innocent bystanders!

 

[The Blue Max]

Humor the public a little, we did not mean to suggest that people actually
try to do this! That should have been clear from the last phrase. However,
it would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if this could be accomplished
without hurting innocent parties!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Unfortunately a lot of people are very serious about wanting to do just
that.

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[Brian Tillman]

Humor the public a little, we did not mean to suggest that people
actually try to do this! That should have been clear from the last
phrase. However, it would be the ultimate form of poetic justice if
this could be accomplished without hurting innocent parties!

Actually, some people have tried what you propose, trying denial of service
attacks on the spammer's sending systems. That usually results in an even
more overwhelming attach from the spammer. I've read news reports of people
who have had to switch ISPs because of the viciousness of the retaliation
from the spammer.