The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96577 Message #1890218
Posted By: Don Firth
21-Nov-06 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Drowning in spam--any recent/new ideas?
Subject: RE: Tech: Drowning in spam--any recent/new ideas?
My internet service provider is Earthlink, and I've opted for their "Spamblocker."
It seems to work pretty well. If an e-mail comes from someone who's in my address book, it pops right through to my in-box. If not, it goes into a "Suspect E-Mail" folder. I usually about five or six messages a day, once as high as fourteen. I can then look them over and move the legit ones into my in-box (and add them to my address book if I want), and quickly zap the rest (lots of cheap meds, ersatz Rolex watches, and offers for low-interest loans). Then, there is a "Known Spam" folder, and I don't even have to mess with that. If I'm curious and click on the folder, it shows me a graph for the past two weeks. On November 8th, it grabbed and slew over 350 messages, and today it ambushed 216.