On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Hi all ! > > The amount of spam reaching my inbox seems to be increasing steadily. > Now, if I can somehow manage to set up a spam-filter, what happens to > the spam ? - Let me rephrase : will it be "bounced" to the spammer, > deleted on my post-server or - worst scenario - stay there forever and > thus fill up my available 15 MB at my ISP ?
I personally use junkfilter, however there are many many programs for this. I believe that almost all use procmail as the transporter of mail. You can edit there spam filters to do almost whatever you want. You can divert all filtered messages as SPAM to /dev/null (deleting them), however I have them just sent to a folder where I check now any then to see if any personal e-mails have gotten diverted wrongly. Seacht www.freshmeat.net for "SPAM filter", and it should tun up about 1000 proggies. > BTW : When browsing the web, it's a real PITA - for me anyway - to use > bandwith for idiotic ads, banners,pop-up windows, java-applets and other > stupid irrelevancies whenever trying to find some useful information. > Until I found the solution : The WebWasher ! ( www.webwasher.com ). They > have a linux-version in rpm-format that installs readily on MDK 8.1 and > works like a charm ! The download is about 400 KB and it's free (for > private users anyway). Recommended ! I tried this too, however I do have my negative thoughts about this. Yes it does filter VERY well, giving a clean page, however loading of these clean pages takes about 1,5 times longer ~ Sometimes more. :-( Another thing is that, being the free version, it only allows you about 15 connections. If you are surfing drastically, and there are pages which do not hang (not fulling loading), these get counted as connections, and now and then I get the annoying screen saying something like "you have already reached your maximum number of connections... blaah blaah blaah" > How do YOU tackle spam ? - Bounce your head against the wall, use a > shotgun on the screen or pull the power-plug ? > > Kaj Haulrich Greetings Ralph
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