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- rusty0101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Oh, thanks for the offer. They are iD10T, and KnowSpam4Yew.
Could you send me an e-mail there when you are done?
Much appreciated. - ZenFu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Cool!
Kinda time consuming, but cool nonetheless.
I'm thinking that G-Mail should have something like peerguardian's ipfilter.dat.
A list of known spammers is added to the database and any messages from spam IPs are automatically classed as "junk".
While bayseian filters will work most of the time, spammers are finding ways around them. Why not just ban IPs as well?
And before anyone says anything about zombie PCs-etc, the messages that are classed as spam are just being moved to a subdir, not being deleted. So if the filter does screw up, you can always set it back on track with the "Not Spam" button. - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"That wouldn't work since a lot of spam actually comes from infected computers... That'd be banning people's legitimate e-mail from getting through google's spam filters."
Not really, since most spam zombies are home users who don't send email directly from their machines anyway, they get routed via the ISP's relay. We'll start seeing reputation systems where *.comcast.net has a bad reputation with mail.comcast.net whitelisted. - mandruku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How to make a How to.
- ZenFu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ EmileVictor.
G-Mail probs records login attempts right?
Why not set up a script that auto-notifies you if you're on the IP blacklist and directs you to some adware/spyware-removing software? - JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The only thing I dislike about this is that it doesn't mark them as spam. Sometimes I'll recive a ton of messages from the same spammer before their filters are adapted, and I'd love to be able to set it up to mark them all as spam automatically, beause just trashing them won't be as helpful.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Or you could always give me your email address and password and ill do it for you
- lwdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did anyone notice that this isn't actually a black list but a very strange workaround to accomplish what filters do?
- joshfraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Step 1: Create a filter with email addresses to be blocked delimited with the OR operator
Step 2: Choose what you want to do with these emails (Delete or Archive)
Step 3: Rinse and repeat as necessary - mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think all of us have at least a few email addresses that we can use this with!
- relaxmax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I get no spam.
Oops, Dvorak saw me...
*ducks for cover* - priapos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This kind of project is screaming open source all over it. There should be a greasmonkey script that can do this with one touch of the button. Additionally, there should be some sort of communal spammer list, so thousands of email addresses are added in one simple step.
- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sometimes I wish there was a way to block them so that mailer-daemon would send it back, just to piss them off (I rarely block people, but the people I do block would deserve this).
- AnImAl999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1D00d.. This is lame.. It's just basic filter functionality that's been in standalone e-mail clients for years...
- dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@dineshbabu
Yeah. I'm not sure why it isn't just as easy to create a simple filter to do the same thing? In fact, I have... for instance, some family members and friends who like to send chain mails and I created a filter that looks for their name and the subject containing "FW: " If both match it goes to the trash. - ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just create a filter to apply to a label to it and mark it read, or move it to the trash. Nothing to see here.
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool... a nice addition to my Gmail Blackbook.
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This has been going on for *years*; there are *huge* spammer lists that many (if not *most*) email providers subscribe to. These allow SPAM filtering at the server level, most by looking at the source IP address of the email and refusing it if it came from a known spamming address. Most users have no idea the filtering is taking place.
- jpyun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Dumb. What is with the ridiculously easy howtos on the front page lately?
- Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"or Gmail's spam filters aren't too good for you".
Innacurate for very poor grammar. Why would I need a blacklist if their spam filters are too good for me? - dineshbabu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i should have read it properly ! I can just use filters ... I dont think i need this !
- Square1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was helpful in the sense that I hadn't yet explored G-Mail's filter feature, so thank you for pointing that out to me... but it seems that could have been accomplished without the black list group. Plese correct me if I'm wrong.
- ascheinberg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The problem with Gmail is that you can't block by sender IP. I have gotten literally HUNDREDS of emails from one mail server in the last month, and Gmail hasn't marked any as spam -- at all. All of them come from addresses with display names like "Refinance.your.house." It's killing me. Honestly, Gmail's spam filter picks up a lot, but it isn't that good overall. Pre-Gmail, Yahoo nearly never let spam through for me.
- dineshbabu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I badly needed this ... Thanks!
- barry253, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In theory, you can use a similar method to set up a whitelist - add all your contacts to a group, move everyone not on that whitelist to a label and archive (remove from inbox). In practice, it seems my contact list is too large (about 300 ppl), and gmail craps out with "error 600."
Gmail's incoming spam has been progressively worse. We need better options and/or controls. - widman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is too obvious.
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You can do this with any decent email client. No Digg.
- jraquino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0blacklist..? for what?
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2That wouldn't work since a lot of spam actually comes from infected computers... That'd be banning people's legitimate e-mail from getting through google's spam filters.
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