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| Thread ID: 39982 | 2003-11-24 02:17:00 | Anti-Spam Software ??? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 194301 | 2003-11-24 02:17:00 | Does anyone think that ANY anti-spam program is worth the effort of installing it. Most spam seems to change "sender" from day to day. You block one address and the next day you get the same stuff back from another address. Then every couple of days you browse through the blocked stuff to see if any wanted e-mail has been blocked. I am getting Spam blocked by my ISP (Ihug) and they are managing to stop a bit more than half of what comes in. My biggest complaint is that they won't block so called "Updates" from Microsoft. I have tried stopping all mail from Microsoft and MS but OE still lets it through. My biggest complaint though is that it takes longer to manage a spam filter than it does to delete them as they come in. Any Opinions ? Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 194302 | 2003-11-24 02:29:00 | With most e-mail clients you can set up filters to delete e-mail based on content. In OE you do it this way- www.portbridge.com | mark.p (383) | ||
| 194303 | 2003-11-24 02:35:00 | I can't tell you if it is worth bothering with anti spam software because I get hardly any spam myself (except in hotmail accts) but is there any chance that you can change your email addy and give it out to trusted correspondents only and just abandon the ones full of junk? | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 194304 | 2003-11-24 03:01:00 | I do that regularly, but I'm running out of ISP's | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 194305 | 2003-11-24 04:28:00 | JJJJJ I am with IHUG as well, and find that with the IHUG spam blocker set on assassin it gets rid of 95% of the spam. Check your settings to see if yours is set on assassin. For the rest of the spam I use Mailwasher. It is a great little program that allows you to delete (or bounce) the spam before it is downloaded. No filters are necessary. You can download Mailwasher from http://www.mailwasher.net/ Oxie |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 194306 | 2003-11-24 04:39:00 | Bouncing just creates unnecessary network(in this case internet) traffic IMHO. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 194307 | 2003-11-24 05:13:00 | get spampal. From www.spampal.org. If you get spam from a site blacklist it with this. It'll stop spam from coming to your email permanently once u blacklist it. Easy to configure and free. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 194308 | 2003-11-24 05:49:00 | Popfile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) works well for me. It detects messages based on their content so it takes a little training (telling it when it makes a mistake). I currently have a 99.97% accuracy rate, and have never had a false positive. If you are interested in an e-mail client with built in spam filters have a look at mozilla thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org). |
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