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

This is my findings as well. What is nice about both my ISP and Netscape is
that it learns what Spam is good as well. I like getting my TigerDirect
spam (though my wife probably thinks otherwise ;) ) for example. In the
first few days after tuning it on, I had to go into the deleted spam pile,
and find the good ones. After about a week, I was getting all of the mail I
wanted and only a little bit of the mail I did not want. It's not perfect,
but for not paying a cent, I have a great system! I have no problems
deleting 6 spam messages a day - only I don't have to delete them. All I do
is call them spam, and it automatically goes to my junk mail folder. In 15
days it's deleted! If I have to, I still have the spam to go through on
both the ISP and my junk mail folder within a 15 day window! So far it's
worked well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@netscape.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:50 PM
To: scott@turnstyle.com
Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...

Then you really need a SPAM tool like the one in Mozilla/Netscape. I
almost never have a falsely accused e-mail message (out of 10 active
accounts). On my heaviest e-mail account (the administrator e-mail for
a web site I maintain), which gets about 100 SPAM messages a day, I
don't think I have ever had a real message get pegged. And I do look
through the SPAM folder each day before deleting it, so I would see any
valid ones. These new filters are really that good. They learn and
adapt as time goes on.

Rob

scott@turnstyle.com wrote:

> 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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