BS: Help for Spam

Subject: BS: Help for Spam
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 12:43 AM

Hi:

I hope I can offer some help here -- our local paper ran an article on Spam on the weekend, and listed a whole lot of useful links on the web -- some offer free spam-fighting programs -- so I thought I'd list them because spam is a frustrating problem for anyone with a computer. I'm not making clickies because it's too time-consuming.

http://cloudmark.com.
I'm using this one on a free 30-day trial now, and it's fantastic, but when the trial is up, it's expensive. So I'm going to try Matador by MailFrontier, which is less costly.

www.gfisoftware.com

www.barracudanetworks.com

www.clearswift.com

www.spamweed.com

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net

http://www.digiportal.com

www.eliminatespam.com (This one is free, and designed for home use.)

www.visualware.com

www.sunbelt-software.com

www.eureka-emailcom

www.mailboxsecurity.com

www.giantcompany.com. (Ranked no. 1 by PC World.)

www.hexamail.com

www.mxlogic.com

www.postini.com

www.spamlion.com

www.spamrepellant.com

www.surfcontrol.com

www.vamsoft.com

Can't speak to the quality of any of these -- as noted, the only one I've tried is Cloudmark, which is just wonderful, but pricey.

Good luck with them -- if anyone finds something good, it would be nice if you post it on this thread.

--pdc

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 12:45 AM

The website for Matador that I mentioned in my first post is:

http://www.mailfrontier.com/products_matador.html

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: ced2
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 04:59 AM

Spam, spam, chips, spam, eggs and spam with extra spam.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 05:11 AM

'av'nt got any spam, spam's off.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: el ted
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 05:36 AM

Try it it paella along with chorizo, smashing.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: ard mhacha
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 06:36 AM

Many thanks PDC, I tried Cloudmark it is as you say, very good.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 08:54 AM

For public consumption I just use Hotmail. The filters are pretty damn good. The address is on my website and but only one spam every couple of days gets through.

For my POP3 account I check the headers on-line first and zap anything I don't recognize.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:37 AM

I zap (and bounce some) with Mailwasher

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 10:51 AM

I always wondered: How do you check headers without opening the email?

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 03:28 PM

in Outlook right click and choose options. and look for "reply to" as well as "to"

It doesn't work on webmail.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:03 PM

GUEST

use Mailwasher.

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:57 PM

here's a free one... G-Lock Spam Combat ...you gradually train it. Works quite well....and you can tell it to keeps copies of what it deletes for a day or two, just in case you worry it deleted something it shouldn't....lots of features..

(they have other programs at http://glocksoft.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Help for Spam
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 10:39 PM

I tried one of the Bayesian anti-spammers -- the ones you train -- and it didn't work very well. I'll keep the glocksoft.com site, just in case it works better. Thanks.