What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike

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Dok wrote:

If you are looking for filtering software. Popfile is supposed to be
excellent. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/




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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:50:31 GMT
Paul Jackson <jackson.p.g@ayteeteedotnet.removethis> wrote:

Paul> Dok wrote:
Paul>
Paul> > What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve
Paul>
Paul> If you are looking for filtering software. Popfile is supposed
Paul> to be excellent. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

I'll second that ... been using POPFile for some time now, and it does a bang-up job of filtering. Actually, it's useful for more than just
spam filtering, as many "buckets" can be defined to sort incoming mail
via Bayesian analysis into whatever categories the user wants/needs
(spam, not spam, work, list mail, advertising, family, whatever ...).

It won't "reduce" spam, as the original poster had requested, of
course. Practicing good 'net "hygiene" will do that. But it will
shuttle it off to a spam folder (or delete it) and help reclaim one's
inbox.

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"Dok" <mjlancaster@the-pentagon.com> wrote in news:c04sl7$q5u$1
@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk:

Mailwasher does it for me, and I have tried all the others I've come
across.

It's very simple, no need even to let suspicious mail on to your computer,
and I've found with some simple rules (not to me; asian characters that
well over 90 percent is premarked for deletion off the server before I
start looking at it.

<sigh>I rarely open my email client </sigh>

mike r

Presorium Frontgate MX works well for me. It previews the headers and addresses for you and allows you to accept/reject before downloading the message body. Its very easy to use and easy to train. Have a look.

http://www.presorium.com


"Dok" <mjlancaster@the-pentagon.com> wrote in message news:c04sl7$q5u$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
What is the best freeware program to redice the amount of Spam i recieve

any advice appreciated

regards

Mike

Le Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:40:07 -0000, "Dok" <mjlancaster@the-pentagon.com> a
écrit:

http://www.glocksoft.com/sc/index.htm

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In article <mHsVb.1853$Ps4.12650@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>,
aquaink@sprint.NOSPAMca says...
Hotmail account so all the mail/junk can be previewed in one place. It
works and is virtually seamless to install.

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Ninou <ninou@spam.altern.org> wrote in
news:ktrc20deuand3dvrkcu6h7pqh05jvad7fc@4ax.com:

SpamCombat has my vote, it works very well.

FM

Father Merrin <fm@provider.com> wrote:

It is better to change email-address as son as it gets spammed.
I have had my current email-address for 2 years, or so, and I never use it
in usenet.

You are helping spammers by sorting the spam away, they think it works when
they can send lots of spam.
If they had no working addresses they couldn't send it anywhere.

So the best answer is to get a new mail account, tell your closest friends
about it, if possible close the old account, to reduce the number of
available mail addresses.

The only ones who really need to handle spam are the ones who have official
addresses which cannot be changed, like the president of USA, his address
must always exist, so it cannot be changed.

Big companies have addresses which cannot easily be changed.
But home users can easily change their mail accounts.
It is even healthy, to clear out old contacts you have no need for anymore.

:-)

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"Dok" <mjlancaster@the-pentagon.com> wrote in
news:c04sl7$q5u$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk:

Roger Johansson scribebat:

For which sense? The new one getting spammed within days as well?

Spammer do not see whether their e-mail arrived or not - the more
e-mails they can send, the better. If they mail to addresses that do not
exist, the poor guy whose address they put in as "from" is flooded by
bounces. (That can be like a DoS to small servers)

Spammer themselves see no difference between existing and non-existing
addresses. Neither do they care. They never check their address list for
invalid entries - they just add new addresses.

Have you ever asked yourself why hotmail.com or aol.com addresses
getting spam even when published nowhere? Because there are programs
that send e-mails to any possible address at these domains! Blindly!

So, the best idea is to keep your old address existing, create filter
rules for it and use it only on newsgroups. Do not change it. The less
addresses spammers have, the less mails they can send - the less mails
they send, the less traffic is used. Bounces create two times the
traffic of existing addresses.

bye,

Onno

Dok wrote:

Mike,
In addition to using antispam software like that recommended at the
Pricelessware site:

http://pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004...#EmailSpamTool

try contacting your ISP and having your user ID changed to a random
string of characters. This will change your email address, spammers
will never guess at the new one (well, for a while anyhow) and all
spam sent to your old address will bounce. I did this and now I get 0
(zero) spam. Next, set up a spam dump email address and use it as an
address when you need to register something, or to give to people who
insist on including you in group sends.

Also, if you are using the server space provided by your ISP for a
personal webpage, take the site down if it contains your user ID in
the string. For instance, my old ACF FAQ was at
http://www.ccountry.net/jcorliss/index.html or somesuch. That address
gave away both my ISP's domain (ccountry.com) and my user ID
(jcorliss). It was a simple matter for spammers to come up with my old
email address, jcorliss@ccountry.com by using a harvester 'bot. Since
my ISP won't change their policy about giving away one's user ID this
way, I never have put up a new website or posted pictures online to
that server space. It's a PITA, but at least I don't get any spam anymore.

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:12:33 +0100, Roger Johansson <no-email@home.se>
wrote:

Perhaps that should be very very well. :-)

< snip >

NOT an option for many business'. If they send out stationery with the
email address on they certainly don't want that address to stop
working !

Regards, John.

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<jcorliss@secrewspam.to#> writes
That's because it does to the owner of the domain you abuse.
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