…and every one of them picked off correctly by my custom Eudora spam filters and trashed accordingly! No false trashings and no successful spam-incursions into my in-boxes!
::happy dance::
I was out partying last night and – unusually – did not hook up the PowerBook between 6 yesterday evening and 9:30 this morning, so I got an unusually high barrage of new mail, including both the late evening and early morning spam blitzes as sent to two different accounts. I watched the progress bar and the mail-processing dialog and wondered how many pieces of spam mail would get through the screen out of over 140 pieces of correspondence. Kinda pleasant to get 100% successful filter performance!
With the rise of dedicated/automatic 3rd-party filtering tools, I’ve wondered on occasion whether maintaining my own private filters is a sign of senescence and obsolescence on my part, and wondered if I should subscribe/buy/install one of those myself, but mornings like this make me proud of my system.
What kind of success rates do folks get with those spam-cop and etc. dedicated spam-filtering systems? (Obviously it’s hard to beat 100%. My actual error-free rate is around 99.3-99.5%).
I dont’ use any program, I just send anything that doesn’t come from an approved address to the trash can. If you really need to get in touch with me, you’ll have my phone number.
um, welby, am I on your approved address list? Because I sent you an email and never heard back - I didn’t know if I was ignored or forgotten. Now I see I might not even be approved?!?
One Hundred Twenty-Seven pieces of spam this morning
One Hundred Twenty-Seven pieces of spam…
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I get about a dozen spams a day, which compared to what others have indicated, is a relatively low number. I use Mailwasher to filter my spam. It’s a godsend. MW does a good job of identifying which emails are definite spam and which ones might be spam. Those which are flagged as spam can be marked for deletion as well as bouncing so that the spammer thinks your address is invalid and hopefully won’t send it to you again (if he does it can be blacklisted so that it will be bounced again). If you’re not sure whether a message is legit you can preview it before actually downloading it via your standard email client (e.g. Outlook). If it turns out to be spam you can mark it for deletion/bounce/blacklist yourself. MW also identifies viruses, but I mainly use Norton’s AV for this.
My ISP has recently started filtering spam and it catches about 95% of them, even thxe onnes tht havv thw spellng dilbratxly mungxd lik thss just so they can try to bypass the filters.
No false trashings and no successful spam-incursions into my in-boxes!