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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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138436	2003-04-28 01:06:00	I'm using Death2spam in beta (I gather it's due for release in early May). Its Bayesian filter is easily and efficiently "trained" to avoid the problem of spammers changing their adresses. It reads the content of the spam as well, and rejects things "similar" to what you tell it to reject. Possible drawbacks; unlike Mailwasher, it requires that you download all the email first. It marks the spam [spam], so you can easily redirect any marked messages to trash or other suitable folder. The developers tried to handle the bandwidth disadvantages of this by removing the body of everything it judged spam; but this presents its own problems, with permanently losing the body of messages falsely id'd as such! I have also experienced SpamAssassin, which gives messages a rating, again dependent on content as well as source; anything above a certain rating can be blocked or diverted to trash. But I find it very difficult to draw a borderline. Around 10 seems appropriate for the mail I get at work, but then you'll get an effusive but "genuine" message rating 10.5 and a Nigerian rating 9.5. Of those three, death2spam is my favoured tool at present; but it does operate from remote servers in US and Australia, and I've found it's sometimes inaccessible or inefficient in terms of mail-receiving speed.	argus (366)
138437	2003-04-28 01:57:00	>Wanna buy a vaccuum cleaner? Its really great, only fifty american dollars. Please buy it, my children have an incurible disease, but don't worry, the vaccuum cleaner was made in france......... I want 1! where can I get it??! that got to be a bargin...	Trev0 (1995)
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