Peter Stuge wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
More likely reflex; posting to the general list leaves your email address exposed on the web for spammers to find and add to their lists. The ~130 spams I receive every day have sharpened my reflexes into almost never sending emails to public aliases.
Start using statistical spam filters. I use bogofilter and dropped the daily spam count from close to the hundreds to one or two!
I trained it with 200+ MB of spam and ~2GB of ham when I started out though, so it may take a while for anyone starting out fresh to get those results, I like it a lot just the same! :)
For Windows clients, there's K9 (keir.net/k9.html) which is a POP proxy implementing the same algoritm as bogofilter.
I probably shouldn't expand this off-topic thread, but oh well...
Filters don't help those of us on dial-up connections. It can take a long time to download 100's of spams.
Ty