From Troy Wray
After an extremely nail-biting experience lasting a good couple of hours
recently, I could at last smile. No, my wife hadn’t given birth. I had taken the
plunge and installed Microsoft’s “Internet Explorer 5 beta”.
On firing up the new e-mail client, Outlook 5, I was interested in one of its
new features—a junk mail filter. “I wonder how that works,” I thought.
I checked the options before I used it to see what control I had over what is
classed as junk mail. The only setting turned out to be a sliding scale, which
increases or decreases the threshold for what is classed as junk. I left the
settings as default and applied it to my inbox.
Checking my junk folder, I found many adult messages and “cheap offer”
messages, all of which were classed correctly. Also classed as junk were many
e-mails from Microsoft. Hence the smile.
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troy@bluefrog.demon.co.uk
