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What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike
 
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:50:31 GMT

Paul> Dok wrote:
Paul>
Paul> > What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve
Paul>
Paul> If you are looking for filtering software. Popfile is supposed
Paul> to be excellent. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

I'll second that ... been using POPFile for some time now, and it does a bang-up job of filtering. Actually, it's useful for more than just
spam filtering, as many "buckets" can be defined to sort incoming mail
via Bayesian analysis into whatever categories the user wants/needs
(spam, not spam, work, list mail, advertising, family, whatever ...).

It won't "reduce" spam, as the original poster had requested, of
course. Practicing good 'net "hygiene" will do that. But it will
shuttle it off to a spam folder (or delete it) and help reclaim one's
inbox.

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What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike
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Mailwasher does it for me, and I have tried all the others I've come
across.

It's very simple, no need even to let suspicious mail on to your computer,
and I've found with some simple rules (not to me; asian characters;) that
well over 90 percent is premarked for deletion off the server before I
start looking at it.

<sigh>I rarely open my email client </sigh>

mike r
 
Presorium Frontgate MX works well for me. It previews the headers and addresses for you and allows you to accept/reject before downloading the message body. Its very easy to use and easy to train. Have a look.

http://www.presorium.com


What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike
 
Presorium Frontgate MX works well for me. It previews the headers and addresses for you and allows you to accept/reject before downloading the message body. Its very easy to use and easy to train. Have a look.

http://www.presorium.com


What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike
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I have to agree with the Frontgate vote. It will also manage your
Hotmail account so all the mail/junk can be previewed in one place. It
works and is virtually seamless to install.
 
What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated
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I like SpamPal.

I average about 200 e-mails per day, and only about 10 are legitimate. Only
3 or 4 spams per week get through SpamPal. I couldn't be happier.

Bob
 
Father Merrin said:
SpamCombat has my vote, it works very well.
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It is better to change email-address as son as it gets spammed.
I have had my current email-address for 2 years, or so, and I never use it
in usenet.

You are helping spammers by sorting the spam away, they think it works when
they can send lots of spam.
If they had no working addresses they couldn't send it anywhere.

So the best answer is to get a new mail account, tell your closest friends
about it, if possible close the old account, to reduce the number of
available mail addresses.

The only ones who really need to handle spam are the ones who have official
addresses which cannot be changed, like the president of USA, his address
must always exist, so it cannot be changed.

Big companies have addresses which cannot easily be changed.
But home users can easily change their mail accounts.
It is even healthy, to clear out old contacts you have no need for anymore.

:-)
 
Big companies have addresses which cannot easily be changed.
But home users can easily change their mail accounts.
It is even healthy, to clear out old contacts you have no need for anymore.
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I hate to change my address, phone number, or E-mail address.

But you're right. As much as I hate to, I'm about to quit using my e-mail
address on the News Groups.

Bob

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What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike
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I have tried many, and this one is hard to beat.
 
Roger Johansson scribebat:
It is better to change email-address as soon as it gets spammed.
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For which sense? The new one getting spammed within days as well?
You are helping spammers by sorting the spam away, they think it works
when they can send lots of spam. If they had no working addresses
they couldn't send it anywhere.
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Spammer do not see whether their e-mail arrived or not - the more
e-mails they can send, the better. If they mail to addresses that do not
exist, the poor guy whose address they put in as "from" is flooded by
bounces. (That can be like a DoS to small servers)

Spammer themselves see no difference between existing and non-existing
addresses. Neither do they care. They never check their address list for
invalid entries - they just add new addresses.

Have you ever asked yourself why hotmail.com or aol.com addresses
getting spam even when published nowhere? Because there are programs
that send e-mails to any possible address at these domains! Blindly!

So, the best idea is to keep your old address existing, create filter
rules for it and use it only on newsgroups. Do not change it. The less
addresses spammers have, the less mails they can send - the less mails
they send, the less traffic is used. Bounces create two times the
traffic of existing addresses.

bye,

Onno
 
Dok said:
What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve
any advice appreciated
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Mike,
In addition to using antispam software like that recommended at the
Pricelessware site:

http://pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004INTERNET.htm#EmailSpamTool

try contacting your ISP and having your user ID changed to a random
string of characters. This will change your email address, spammers
will never guess at the new one (well, for a while anyhow) and all
spam sent to your old address will bounce. I did this and now I get 0
(zero) spam. Next, set up a spam dump email address and use it as an
address when you need to register something, or to give to people who
insist on including you in group sends.

Also, if you are using the server space provided by your ISP for a
personal webpage, take the site down if it contains your user ID in
the string. For instance, my old ACF FAQ was at
http://www.ccountry.net/jcorliss/index.html or somesuch. That address
gave away both my ISP's domain (ccountry.com) and my user ID
(jcorliss). It was a simple matter for spammers to come up with my old
email address, (e-mail address removed) by using a harvester 'bot. Since
my ISP won't change their policy about giving away one's user ID this
way, I never have put up a new website or posted pictures online to
that server space. It's a PITA, but at least I don't get any spam anymore.
 
Perhaps that should be very very well. :-)
It is better to change email-address as son as it gets spammed.
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NOT an option for many business'. If they send out stationery with the
email address on they certainly don't want that address to stop
working !

Regards, John.

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