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| Thread ID: 32627 | 2003-04-24 04:48:00 | Most Efficient way of blocking spam? | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 138426 | 2003-04-25 23:47:00 | Of course allmost any email client also has a "block senders" list. Outlook has, Kmail, which i use now has. I have blocked msn.com, mp3.com, and aol.com. The only reason i haven't blocked hotmail (yet) is because i get email form just one person through it. OK maybe i am wrong and there are some good filter add ons out there.. but before filling computers with more ****, why not have a look at what filters are in the email client currently in use? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 138427 | 2003-04-26 00:10:00 | The subject of spam seems to crop up all too frequently in this forum... after being connected to the 'net for the past 5 years, and now maintaining 3 websites with several email addresses, I have had one spam attack in all that time (this was from a site that I actually subscribed to through my private email address for news updates which then began arriving with alarming regularity until I finally got rid of the unwanted mail - wasn't easy, but I was more determined than them! I guess that's another way of saying it's a mystery to me how people get so much unsolicited junkmail) Anyway, that's dull and duller - if you want to find out a lot more about spam than what has been posted here, have a look at www.cauce.org There's also a link to Junkbusters on that page which is a good read. Dyan |
Dyan (2333) | ||
| 138428 | 2003-04-26 01:53:00 | try this website http://www.death2spam.net.nz nothing to download just adjust your e-mail settings it is a trial you will be a beta tester and you may have to pay for it later when all the bugs have been worked out |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 138429 | 2003-04-26 04:13:00 | Chris, have a look at bogofilter (linux.oreillynet.com). "bogofilter" to google will find this and other references if I mistyped it. This uses Bayesian statistics to classify the contents of emails. It looks as if it will be very capable. There's a couple of articles in Linux Journal about it, too. Sorry folks, its *nix only as yet. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 138430 | 2003-04-26 04:14:00 | Chris, have a look at bogofilter (linux.oreillynet.com). "bogofilter" to google will find this and other references if I mistyped it. This uses Bayesian statistics to classify the contents of emails. It looks as if it will be very capable. There's a couple of articles in Linux Journal about it, too. Sorry folks, its *nix only as yet. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 138431 | 2003-04-26 08:10:00 | It seems to me there's a lot of enthusiasm for Mailwasher here. I use it. But it seems only to be applicable to POP3 and Hotmail accounts, and not to webmail generally. Is this right? If so is the best way to avoid spammers to (more or less) randomly change email addresses with all the nuisance involved in notifying one's contacts. And as for the Rev Thomas Bayes ...., depends on whether prior or posterior probabilities are more appropriate in this context, if you get your priors wrong you may finish up with more spam rather than less - just a random thought. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 138432 | 2003-04-26 09:26:00 | > But it seems only to be applicable to POP3 and > Hotmail accounts, and not to webmail generally. > > Is this right? Who are you using for your web mail account???? Yahoo??? Or other??? |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 138433 | 2003-04-26 10:34:00 | A couple of others. Not Yahoo. Lycos is one tho'. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 138434 | 2003-04-26 11:31:00 | > Outlook has, Kmail, which i use now has. I have blocked msn.com, > mp3.com, and aol.com. The only reason i haven't blocked hotmail (yet) > is because i get email form just one person through it. Wow!?! Can you get statistics for blocked messages? I have an msn.com addy along with another one yahoo.com.au which I use for respective companies. MSN Sites get the MSN addy and Yahoo sites the Yahoo addy! Anyway, it's just the statistics I'm interested in, so if you can provide them, that'd be great! (sorry Caffy for heading OT here) |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 138435 | 2003-04-26 23:09:00 | The forum has a Spam FAQ. Link top right of this page. | Susan B (19) | ||
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