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L. B Keeton

I would like the names/adresses of some reliable anti-spam programs suitable
for XP home edition.
Thanks.
 
L. B Keeton said:
I would like the names/adresses of some reliable anti-spam programs
suitable for XP home edition.
Thanks.
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I believe you are with HI WAAY - they are a company who provide spam
filtering - why not contact them??
Rgds
Antioch
 
L. B Keeton said:
I would like the names/adresses of some reliable anti-spam programs suitable
for XP home edition.
Thanks.
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While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


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From HiWaay's site:

"AnteSpam is for businesses or individuals who own their domain name.
Anyone with their own domain name can use AnteSpam. It is not set up to
filter email for hiwaay.net addresses. HiWAAY provides the optional free
Brightmail spam and virus filtering for customers with "@hiwaay.net email
addresses."

Tom
 
Hi Tom
Then that sounds as if its good news - I have Brightmail - it misses 1 in
about 100, but only the .gif type - it gets all the other stuff
I see Bruce has mentioned not using genuine email - I think the poster has -
forgot to mention it.
 
"4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server."

I use MailWasher Pro and it is just fine. The preview feature is very good.
While I can tell if most e-mail is or is not junk, etc. and simply delete
it, I like to look at a few messages before I decide whether or not to keep
them.

Barry Karas
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L. B Keeton said:
I would like the names/adresses of some reliable anti-spam programs
suitable for XP home edition.
Thanks.
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Its also pertinent if the server is a genuine mail server of not. For
instance, webmail.

Am using MailWasher Pro myself. Google can find a vendor for you.
 
Barry said:
"4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server."

I use MailWasher Pro and it is just fine. The preview feature is very good.
While I can tell if most e-mail is or is not junk, etc. and simply delete
it, I like to look at a few messages before I decide whether or not to keep
them.
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I use EmailDatabase. It has an excellent preview feature. The main feature is
that it accepts email and stores the text, without the graphics, in a poweful
database. It is a stand-alone email program. Check it out at
http://www.analysis-knowledge.com.
 
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