Spam Blocker

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Joe said:
What do you consider to be the best spam blocker?
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Hello,

There isn't one that is 100% effective, spammers change accounts frequently.
You could try Mailwasher as that seems OK. It can bounce messages back as
"unknown recipient".
Unless ISPs start clamping down and taking action against spammers it will
continue.
 
Hello,

There isn't one that is 100% effective, spammers change accounts frequently.
You could try Mailwasher as that seems OK. It can bounce messages back as
"unknown recipient".
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And that my friend only compounds the problem.

Innocent people will get bounces, spammers ALWAYS use fake addresses.
 
Joe said:
What do you consider to be the best spam blocker?
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Calling your ISP, telling them to give you a new email address with the
portion before the "@" sign consisting of a randomized sequence of
alphanumeric characters. Then don't give that particular email address
to any company, website or other person that you don't know. For that
purpose, use a free email address account with Yahoo.

Also:
1. Don't set up a private website if your ISP incorporates your user ID
into it's address.

2. Never use your real email address when posting to any newsgroup.

3. Never reply to somebody you don't know from your main email address
account.

I've been using this method for years now, and I get zero (0) spams per
day in either my main account or my Yahoo account. The latter I
attribute to Yahoo's excellent spam filtering.

If you must use a program to filter your spam (using the above
techniques, I don't need such a program), then you might consider
switching to Thunderbird:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

in place of Outlook or Outlook Express (the latter of which you seem to
be using.) Thunderbird has built in spam blocking which you can train.

HTH
 
Joe said:
What do you consider to be the best spam blocker?
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Try to narrow down your question. There are 3 kinds of spam blockers. Server
based, mail proxies and client based. Which one(s) are you interested in?
It's also difficult to make suggestions as it will depend on what operating
system you are using and mail client.

We use PreciseMail on our server and Eudora's 6 with SpamWatch.
 
Joe said:
What do you consider to be the best spam blocker?
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I used K9 with OE for a long time. It became 99% effective after about
8K emails. It started out above 85%.

Norm
 
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