> Okay, I surrender. I have been content with dealing with spam on a > per-email basis, using the dispatch on server feature, or just > dealing with the minor inconvenience. But now it's no longer a minor > inconvenience. Interestingly, I get almost no spam from the address > I use on mailing lists, newsgroups, and sign-ups; the spam I get > comes mostly into my registered domain and my primary address.
Me too. > In any event, I now need to deal with it, but have spent no > attention to the various postings here on what to use or how. Is > there a handy-dandy program or Internet site to which someone can > direct me to start my search for a tool? (And, does anyone know > *why* most of the spam would be coming in to an address that I > rarely use except for business and social connections?) Spammers, as I understand it, are increasingly using general web searching to find the addresses they use as spam destinations. In the last year I have tried at least four different email filtration services. Only one so far has been really satisfactory: MessageFire ( http://www.messagefire.com ). MessageFire behaves as a special proxy server for your POP3 email retrieval. It is extremely fast and extremely reliable, and unlike most email filtration services, it relies almost not at all on known-source lists, but instead inspects headers and compares IPs for false info and nonmatching IPs and domains. It has filter overrides both positive and negative, and its tech people are very very friendly and accessable. Those I found utterly unsatisfactory: MailCircuit (inflexible, less-than-satisfactory staff), SpamCop (blocked only about 50%), MailBlocks (bad IMAP implementation without POP option, sometimes unresponsive servers, utterly unresponsive tech staff), SolidBlue (Windows-only setup involving a custom application, web site often not accessable). Myrealbox.com has a truly excellent email filtration built-in, but its terms of service are strongly and punitively non-commercial. I don't know if there is a commercial-OK Myrealbox.com variant. -- Jonathan E. Brickman Why worry about wars? http://joshuacorps.org/fw/ ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
