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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Top Dog will flag incoming email as belonging to these categories allowing you to automatically sort or screen these email as you see fit.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This database is continually updated by Apocgraphy staff and by users like you.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Categories include: </font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#ChainLetters">Chain Letters</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#Petitions">Petitions</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#UrbanLegends">Urban Legends</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#BulkMailings">Bulk mailings</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#Hoax">Hoax email</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#Jokes">Jokes</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#Virus">Virus</a></b></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#Spam">Commercial Spam</a></b></font></li> </ul> <hr width="66%" align="left"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="ChainLetters"></a><b>Chain Letters</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">These are electronic versions of the old fashioned chain letters. They usually offer the promise of good luck to all who forward them and horrible consequences to those who "break the chain"</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <a name="Petitions"></a><b>Petitions</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Any message that asks you to forward it on and/or email someone to further a cause. <br> The cause it self may be legitimate/worthwhile or not. <br> A message being placed in this category is not a reflection on the legitimacy of the cause. <br> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <b><a name="UrbanLegends"></a>Urban Legends</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Urban legends are apocryphal stories, that spread quickly and are popularly believed to be true though generally not true or highly exaggerated.<br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">These email are usually cautionary tails about HIV infected needles being placed in pay phones and the like.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They are <a href="#hoax">hoaxes</a> of a sort but they are usually quite involved and are usually sent with the good intention of warning the recipient about some danger to themselves or their loved ones.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Note: Some <a href="#UrbanLegends">Urban Legends</a> are <i>true</i>.<br> For example the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/hungersite.html" target="_blank">UN Hunger Site</a> legend or <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/piehigher.asp" target="_blank">Make the Pie Higher!</a> legend.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <b><a name="BulkMailings"></a>Bulk Mailings</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This category includes any mass mailing that you would like to receive.<br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Top Dog features full support for mailing lists.<br> Top Dog will screen out all mass mailings which are normally spam, unless you indicate that you would like to receive them. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is often difficult to say whether or not a message is <a href="#Spam">spam</a> since the same message sent to someone who has asked to receive it versus someone who has not will change this determination. One useful strategy for eliminating <a href="#Spam">spam</a> is to screen all <a href="#BulkMailings">bulk</a> mailings that are not in your personal list of approved senders or known mailing lists.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Many spammers will try to tell you they are a legitimate mailing list and they have added you to their list because they thought you would be interested.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Legitimate mailing lists will only put you on the list if you specifically ask to be put on it, and will drop you from the list at your request.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you have not requested to be put on a list please categorize all their email as commercial <a href="#Spam">spam</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Opt-out mailing lists also belong in the commercial <a href="#Spam">spam</a> category. <br> Web sites frequently have you uncheck a box if you do <b>not</b> want to be added to a mailing list. This practice is one form of opt-out list. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The best practice for running mailing lists is known as double opt-in. This is where you specifically request to be added to a mailing list and then the mailing list sends you a one-time confirmation email and only adds you to their list after you have confirmed your request.<br> If this has not happened the email probably does not belong in this category.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <b><a name="Hoax"></a>Hoax</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This form of message is usually some sort of bogus warning that encourages you to forward it on to all your friends or a scam which uses fraudulent claims in an attempt to get money from you.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This category is a sort of catch-all for any bogus message that does not fall into one of the other categories of bogus message.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bogus <a href="#virus">virus</a> warnings and scams are examples of this category of message. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> Further information on scam <a href="#hoax">hoaxes</a> can be found at the following sites:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scambusters.org/">ScamBusters</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://advocacy-net.com/scammks.htm">advocacy-net</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBScams.shtml">HoaxBusters</a></font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Further information on <a href="#virus">virus</a> <a href="#hoax">hoaxes</a> can be found at the following sites:</font></p> <ul> <li> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html">Symantec</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://vil.nai.com/VIL/hoaxes.asp">McAffee</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?page=0">VMyths</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/">Sophos</a></font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/hoaxes/">Stiller Research</a></font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <b><a name="Jokes"></a>Jokes</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This category is pretty self explanatory.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Email in this category make their rounds of the internet usually forwarded between friends.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Their content is <i>intended</i> to be funny and they generally don't ask you to forward them on.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is nice to categorize email as Jokes even though they are not malicious in any way, simply to help people avoid mistaking them as spam.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <b><a name="Virus"></a>Virus</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This category includes all viruses, worms, and Trojan horses.<br> They are the sort of thing virus scanners scan for.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If your virus scanner goes off when you receive an email you are <i>strongly</i> encouraged to flag the attachment as a virus.  <br> This will be a valuable warning to those people who are not running a virus checker, have out dated virus definition files or a less sensitive virus scanner. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br> <a name="Spam"></a>Spam</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This category includes any email you did not specially request or authorize be sent to you.<br> The usually contain get rich quick schemes, offers of pornography or any other advertisement for products or services which you did not solicit.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This category is often called Unsolicited Commercial email or UCE and constitutes the bulk of unwanted email.  </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Although the offers may be dubious, if the message is offering outright to sell you something then it should be considered commercial spam as opposed to a <a href="#Hoax">hoax</a>. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If a message was forwarded to you by a friend it probably does not belong in this category.</font> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <BR clear=all> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> free spam blocker anti spam software free spam filters email security free anti virus software Free download stop spam POP free anti virus download outlook express Netscape spam 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