Re: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...

In my case, the main question isn't how much spam gets past the filter, but
rather how much legit email winds up wrongly filtered as spam.

A little while back, my ISP added a spam filter that considered all email
coming from Verizon to be spam (and so half my family couldn't send me
email). I prefer to remain unfiltered -- I find that having to additionally
look through a "filtered" folder for false-positives winds up taking me
longer than just deleting them.

I've grown accustomed to deleting spam/virus emails, but I'm on broadband
and I'm sure it's a much greater hassle over dialup (when I'm on dialup, I
sometimes first use webmail to delete spam, and then POP with my regular
client).

Lastly, I turn off HTML viewing in my email client -- that can help cut back
on some spam/virus email hassles.

speak soon,
Scott Matthews
http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colgrove, George" <George.Colgrove@state.vt.us>
To: "'Rob Bell'" <RobDBell@netscape.net>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...

> I second Robs Statements. I also use NS 7.1 and am very happy. I once
got
> over 200 emails a day at the very least! With my ISP providing basic spam
> protection, and Netscape's magic, I get about 5 or 6 spam messages that I
> need to eliminate. My ISP catches about 70%, Netscape usually catches
about
> 90% of the remaining (usually 30 to 40 messages). Considering the work
that
> is being done, NOT BAD! I am however going to a new ISP to clear away
from
> so much spam. I will also be upgrading to Mozilla in the future as well.
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@netscape.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:53 AM
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...
>
> I use Netscape v7.1 for all my e-mail accounts (Netscape WebMail,
> HotMail, IMAP and POP from ISPs). It does a great job at automatically
> identifying and ridding me of those types of SPAM. It is the same SPAM
> engine that is within Mozilla (since Netscape is a superset of Mozilla).
> If you don't need to access Netscape WebMail then I suggest avoiding
> Netscape, which is a dead-end product, and go with Mozilla.
>
> Rob
>
>
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