Word: eudora
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...DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, luminous Southern author; in Jackson, Miss. Welty's keen sense of observation fueled not just her writing but her photographs. She was immortalized too when a software designer named his e-mail program Eudora after her. See Eulogy, below...
...filters in Eudora, a popular industrial-strength e-mail program, let you block mail by addresses or subject lines. This quickly turned into an entertaining game of cat and mouse. I blocked the address of anyone who sent me spam, only to find that most spammers change their addresses every time. So I focused on the subject line, telling Eudora to zap any mail that mentioned miracle diets, making money at home, refilling ink-jet printers or securing cut-rate Viagra...
Trouble is, those dastardly spammers are putting their ads in ever more innocent-seeming packets, like the one from my Australian friend. If every spam looked like that, I figured, I would lose the war. Already, the complexity of my filter list--with 300 entries--was making Eudora run like a tortoise...
...leading software tools are Spam Buster contactplus.com/spam and SpamKiller spamkiller.com) Both tap quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases. This is what my Eudora filters would have looked like had I played cat and mouse for a few more centuries...
...Mississippi, to hear Eudora Welty read from her works was as prized as a pair of tickets to the state's Egg Bowl, the annual gridiron classic between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...