Speaking of email . . .

[Duston, Hal]

Seth Dimbert wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> > 
> > ...I'm also looking at some type of email spam
> > handling solution.  I have about 5 email accounts, 
> > all of them with different "ages" of internet 
> > circulation.  One email account is over 5+ years 
> > old and gets a BOATLOAD of spam.  On the other hand I 
> > still get good email on it also.  Has anyone come up 
> > with a good way to tackle the multi-headed email monster?
> 
> I use the services of the folks at spamcop.net. I set 
> all of my email to forward to an address @spamcop.net 
> and use Outlook (or Entourage on my Mac) to check the 
> IMAP mailbox they provide. I also check via webmail in 
> any browser. They do a great job of marking Spam and I 
> can black/white list any individual piece of mail at any 
> time.
> 
> The only thing I don't like is that I have to report spam 
> within 3 days of receiving it. I usually blow that deadline 
> and end up simply deleting the spam (unread) rather than 
> doing my bit to improve the world by reporting the
> spam to the sender's ISP.
> 
> Check it out. I used the free service (to simply report spam) 
> for a long time, then decided to switch to the for-cost IMAP 
> account. I think it's about $15/year. It's worth it.

I am most interested in following the developments of bogofilter.

http://tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/

This is based on the Bayesian method mentioned on the list
last month.  I haven't had the time to try to set it up yet,
as it requires a library that hasn't been ported to my ISP's
OS yet.

Hal