Filter/blocking unwanted messages

[Ian Hoddy]

When I joined email I thought my days of spam were over. Unfortunately the honeymoon has ended and I now get numerous spam messages.  Trying to filter these out is useless because the bastards who send spam constantly change their identity.

Is it not possible to instruct gmail to delete any message that contains in its heading or body words such as penis and Viagra regardless of the identity of the sender.  If not, why not as this seems such a simple request?

[Zack (Doc)]

Don't try to create a filter, as you've stated it's nearly impossible.  Use GMail's built in, adaptive spam filter.  When you encounter a message that's not marked as spam, but is, you need to click the "report spam" button.  This moves it to spam, and helps the adaptive filter learn new ways to detect spam.  It will get better over time.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6602

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 07:17, Ian Hoddy <ianh...@googlemail.com> wrote:

When I joined email I thought my days of spam were over. Unfortunately the honeymoon has ended and I now get numerous spam messages.  Trying to filter these out is useless because the bastards who send spam constantly change their identity.

Is it not possible to instruct gmail to delete any message that contains in its heading or body words such as penis and Viagra regardless of the identity of the sender.  If not, why not as this seems such a simple request?

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[Sean Murphy]

    It is possible, and actually fairly simple to do. Although, as Zack points out, it is not as effective as using the adaptive spam filters that come built-in to Gmail. If you are dead-set on what you ask, you just need to click on the small "Create a filter" link at the top of the screen, the one just under the "Show search options" link. The filter creation screens are fairly self-explanatory. However - if you do create such a link, those deleted messages will never be examined by the adaptive spam filters, and the more spam they get to study, the better they get at identifying spam in the future. So creating such a filter will not only be less effective than using the spam function, but it will also somewhat lessen the effectiveness of the spam function itself...

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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 07:17, Ian Hoddy <ianh...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[Elihu]

Your message was flagged as spam by gmail, I guess your keyword did the trick 

[Ryan Morehart]

Also, are the messages arriving in Spam? If they are, then just ignore
them and Gmail removes them after 30 days.