Welcome to a new month and a new edition of our Newsletter. This month we will be looking at how to configure your Outlook so that it will delete the emails which have been tagged as Spam automatically.

In this issue:

* Setting up a Spam Filter
* Facts of Interest
* Websites of Interest
* Enrich your Vocabulary
* Quote of the month

Setting up a Spam Filter.

The following shows you how to setup rules in outlook to delete messages that we mark as SPAM. If your email is hosted by Strobe, we are using a spam filtering program called Spam Assassin to assess all incoming email. It will identify spam emails and tags them with *****SPAM***** in the subject line therefore making it easier for you to set up a filter in your email program to isolate and delete these messages.

The following is how to set up this up in Outlook 2000 & XP

1. Go to the Tools menu and choose Rules Wizard
2. Click “New”
3. Make sure “Start from blank rule” is selected
4. Select "Check messages when they arrive" and click Next
5. Tick "with specific words in the subject"
6. Click on "specific words" in the Rule description window
7. Type in *****SPAM***** and click Add, then click OK
8. Under "What do you want to do with the message?", tick "move it to the specified folder"
9. Click on "specified" in the Rule description window
10. Now assign it to a folder or create a separate ”Spam” folder, once you have done this click OK
11. Click Finish and you are done

This will cause any email marked as spam to be saved to a special folder when you check your mail, and so it will not appear in your Inbox. You can then check this folder for any legitimate email that has been accidentally identified as spam before deleting.

If you don’t use Outlook 2000 and XP click here for instructions for other email programs.

Disclaimer: The way that Spam Assassin works it that it uses a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam". This system, like everything man made, is fallible so it is recommended moving these emails marked as spam to a folder, rather than deleting it, where you will be able to go through these emails at your leisure to find any emails that may have been marked as spam by mistake.

Facts of Interest (supplied by www.netsurfquiz.com)

*English is the leading language on the Internet, with 155 million users. (Source… InternetStats.com May 2002).

* The percentage of viewers, who actually click on banners ads, is 1 or 2%. This is less than the last few years, where the percentage was 2 or 3.

*In 1999, the Internet celebrated its 30th anniversary.

*Sites that Stink This website contains links to some of the worst websites, have a look and a laugh at people who obviously have too much (or little) time on their hands.

* The All Blacks. We took the Super 12; maybe we can take the Bledisloe Cup? Check out the fixture times for this and the Tri Nations Series at

* Movie Mistakes. This website covers some movie production bloopers over looked by editors.

Here are some interesting new words to add to your vocabulary. All these words came about with the advent of the Internet; test how many you already know.

* Spam: Is a slang name for unsolicited commercial email

* Brochureware: Corporate Web sites that offer no real value.

* Dot-bomb: A play on the term dot-com, it refers to a bad idea, a failed business venture, or April 14, 2000.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

Remember if you have any queries or would like assistance - please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Have a great month!

The Strobe Net team.