[Hidden-tech] Anti-spam help

[Shel Horowitz]

It's very frustrating. I used to like Spamfire for Mac, but newer 
versions don't seem to work--and a growing percentage rescued email 
simply never arrived. Many of the ISPs overfilter, and I find it a 
real challenge to send and receive certain mail--yet I get a dozen or 
more Nigerian spams a day (The body part mail does seem to have 
tapered off, thank goodness).

Whatever solution you choose, you have to be able to sort through for 
false positives. In my experience, at least 10% of the rejected mail 
is actually important..

So far, the very inadequate solution I've found is to pass over the 
mail in Mail2Web and delete the junk before it gets on my server, and 
follow up by phone if I don't hear back from someone I wrote to.

>
>Dear H-T list,
>
>I am getting so much spam now that it's just taking too much time to 
>sort through and delete.  I run Win XP Pro, and use MS Outlook to 
>funnel 3 e-mail accounts.  I also use the free Avast ant-virus 
>software.
>
>My domain host for 2 of the 3 accounts says that my e-mails are 
>running through their anti-spam tools, Spam Assassin, but too much 
>is coming through.
>
>I'm open to buying anti-spam software.
>
>I look forward to the collective wisdom on this list to help me 
>reduce this nuisance.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
>
>Andrew Bellak
>413-549-4589 home / office
>646-552-5783 mobile
>-
>
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In an effort to stop enslaving myself to e-mail, I'm only checking 
this account once or twice a day. If you have something that needs an 
immediate response, please call. And if you don't hear from me in a 
day or two, please call--with the hundreds of e-mails I get every 
day, I can miss messages (or sometimes they simply fail to arrive).

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