-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam,
On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 14:53 GMT +0100, Adam Rykala [AR] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : AR> Seeing as the pursuit of spam is an ongoing concern to AR> everyone...anyone checked out SpamPal at www.spampal.org.uk? AR> I'm using it now and it looks pretty good... DNSBL's, AR> white/blacklists, auto updates.... free and the manual mentions AR> the Bat! for configuring anyway! I average between 20-25 spam messages/day on my various email accounts. At one time, I diligently reported everything to SpamCop. I never received any less spam, so I gave up. Next I tried a variety of spam intercepting/tagging software like SpamPal, SpamWeasel, etc. They seemed to work, but I thought it was cumbersome to have to use an extra program for mail retrieval. Next I decided to focus on using The Bats filters exclusively. It works wonderfully! I rarely get any non-spam in my spam folder, and no spam in my in boxes. I also don't lose email from people whose ISPs are blacklisted. I use 5 filters following some of the schemes used by the spam blocking software. I have a filter by Subject, by Body, by From Address, Known, and then a catch all to get the rest. These all follow my filters for mailing lists and wanted info messages. The Bat's Known filter (people listed in your address book) is such a great idea. I don't know why other email programs don't adopt it. There really is no need to use a 3rd party filter if you invest a little time setting up The Bats filters. The end result is effective spam filtering with only one program ... your e-mail program. The Bat's backup facility allows you to save everything easily. Who could ask for more? - -- Kevin Coates Dewitt, NY USA _________________________________________________________________ AIM:kbc49 ICQ:2727351 Yahoo/MSM:kbc1949 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.1.91-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE9i3wm+iLuzNeXThwRAmZ1AKDND68RDsu5ZZVbG9TxVLH+9n6pFACg2mzA R/mtYBQWFQv1iI3mxXhykmw= =OIWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
