 OT: Which spam blocker should I get?, the spam's gettin' outta control |
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| Curvie Roadlover |
 Aug 8 2004, 05:05 PM
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Two trunks are better than one!  Group: Members Posts: 2,025 Joined: 29-December 02 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 42  |
Was gone for the weekend at the MWC and I come home to 50 e-mails in the inbox. 40 of them are spam. I've had enough. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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| RustyWa |
Aug 8 2004, 07:22 PM
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Working Member Group: Members Posts: 610 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Kent, WA Member No.: 72 |
I've had good luck with IHateSpam.
At work I'd get like 220 emails a day. No I don't surf porn (at work), I was just one of the lucky guys to have his email address posted on the company website long ago... IHateSpam would knock that down to about 10 a day. http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=930 It's cheap, $19.95 for the first year, 50% renewal after that. It also works with POP3 and MS Exchange servers. |
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| silver2.0 |
Aug 8 2004, 08:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 25-February 04 From: Fairfield, WA (spokane area) Member No.: 1,715 |
My favorite is from download.com, it is called ad-aware and it is completely free, and you can update it like you would anti-virus. Works great. Good luck!!
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| RustyWa |
Aug 8 2004, 11:30 PM
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Working Member Group: Members Posts: 610 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Kent, WA Member No.: 72 |
One other thing I should add about the IHateSpam software. I've been using it for like 8 months now and I've probably only had like 15 false positives. That's not to shabby for 8 months @ 220 messages per day.
Oh yea, they also have a free trial period. |
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| mightyohm |
Aug 9 2004, 12:01 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,277 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 162 Region Association: Pacific Northwest  |
My mail server admin uses spam assassin. It works pretty well. I get a LOT of spam to some of my accounts and it cuts it down to 1-2 a day at most. I haven't even bothered using some of the advanced features (like training) yet. Every time I check my spam folder I have tens of megabytes of spam. (!!)
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| anthony |
Aug 9 2004, 12:28 AM
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2270 club Group: Benefactors Posts: 3,107 Joined: 1-February 03 From: SF Bay Area, CA Member No.: 218 |
Adaware hasn't nothing to do with spam. It deletes spyware from your system. The easiest thing to do is to change your email address and start fresh. I like having public and private email address. You use one email for correspondance with friends and family and use the other for everything you do on the web.
After that server-side spam filtering by your email provider is the best bet. Finally, you could use the spam filtering built in to many email clients. That alone may make your email more manageable. |
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| cooltimes |
Aug 9 2004, 11:31 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,508 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 2,081 Region Association: None |
Why pay anything to can spam? What a bunch of crap. Get a new email address at your email ISP.
ALWAYS use numbers as the start of your email address and end it with numbers. The spam MF's will be a long time hitting you with their crap unless you expose that address in a public site... Most ISP's allow you 5 different id mailboxes. Use them. If you start getting spam, just delete and use another new one. Cooley |
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