Tagging more spam By Peter M. Abraham March 2004 You may have seen an increase in spam, and especially untagged spam over the past few months as spam senders continue to think of new and improved ways of combating automated spam protection systems. I'm sure this has led to some degree of frustration in terms of the amount of pornographic and drug related spam that may end up in your in-box because you cannot filter if they are not tagged as spam. So it was time for human beings on the "let's tag spam as spam" side of the fence to get into the action. Hopefully by the time you read this article, you will have seen more spam that should be tagged as spam in your email (please keep in mind tagging has zero to do with prevention). That will help you filter your email more effectively.  See http://www.dynamicnet.net/customer/help/filtering_email_with_spamassassin.htm for instructions on how to set up your email program to filter email based on tags. As part of the reporting, you will see codes like J_CHICKENPOX, J_BACKHAIR, TW_, J_WEEDS, and others.  Those new codes reflect spam coding rules that others have shared to help tagging be more effective with the recent changes spam senders have been making. While we cannot guarantee 100% tagging of spam that is spam; we are trying.  Please feel free to contact our support department if you have particular types of spam that continue to be untagged. If you have any valid mail tagged as spam, please alert our support department immediately; we will work with you so that future mail from the sender is not tagged as spam. Thank you