Spam record

SpamNet never worked for me. Since I've configured Outlook to convert HTML email to text, my spam never matched the SpamNet database.

I'm using a combination of SpamAssassin on the server and the SpamBayes Outlook plugin on my desktop. Out of the 300 or so spams I get each day, SpamAssassin catches most of them. SpamBayes gets the majority of things that slip by SpamAssassin, and four or five hit my inbox. The ones that hit my inbox typically get through the filters by misspelling every word in the email.

SpamAssassin rawks my world. There's now a free Windows version that works with any POP3 mailreader: http://saproxy.bloomba.com/

rOD.

I've been using SpamNet for the past 5 months or so... in fact, I'm still using the beta. (Un)fortunately I might receive 373 pieces of spam in a given year -- I guess you're just that much popular.

Go you.

Adam: I tried installing SpamBayes but kept getting some error message about a missing DLL or module or something.

Rod: Thanks for the tip! My non-work e-mail, for which I use Pegasus, is equally spam-infested. I downloaded the Windows version of SpamAssassin and so far, so good - it's even caught a Nigerian spam, something SpamNet seems to have trouble with.

Tim: Ah, if only the volume of spam really did reflect my popularity! Alas, I think it's more likely that my address has gotten sucked up by every spambot in existence, since it's all over Fusion and other sites and we've never tried any of those supposed spam-buster tricks like using JavaScripts or escaped characters to display e-mail addresses.

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