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Open Sesame Spam Blocker
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Version
1.0.0
Open Sesame Spam Blocker is a Windows software program
that deletes any email in your Outlook or Outlook
Express Inbox folder unless it meets at least one the
following criteria:
1) The email comes from someone in a "white list" of
senders created by you
2) The email comes from someone whose email address is
in your address book
3) The subject line contains one of the passwords
selected by you
If the email does not pass any of these criteria, it
is deleted (moved to the deleted folder). When the
email is deleted, Open Sesame Spam Blocker can send an
email (if you wish) telling the sender that the email
has been deleted. If you wish, this email will give
them the password that they need to include in the
subject line in order to have Open Sesame Spam Blocker
not delete the email. While it may seem strange to
automatically send everyone who sends you a password
that enables them to bypass Open Sesame Spam Blocker,
there is actually a very logical reason for this.
Almost all spam is sent out in bulk by computer
programs. These programs ignore any replies. In fact,
the return address is usually totally phony, so they
never even see the reply. Therefore, these spam
mailers do not read the return message and resend the
email with the password. However, if the email was
sent by a real live person (perhaps your long lost
love who had tracked you down or an important business
contact you forgot to put in the list of acceptable
email addresses), that person will almost certainly
resend the email with the password in the subject line.
(Note: Open Sesame Spam Blocker does not work with
America Online email or email that you read by going
to a Web site, like Yahoo.com.)
Open Sesame Spam Blocker is especially useful for
businesses that have a Web site with a "click here to
send email" type link. You can have the link
automatically add the password to the subject line by
including code in the link that automatically creates
the subject line.
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