I like the gmail crowdsourcing idea of spam filtering - if you can put up
with google reading all your mails (as well as NSA, GCHQ, and the Chinese
and Russian equivalents).
Me, paranoid, no.
Jez
On 29 October 2014 16:02, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not seeing any exceptional amount of spam emails. Earthlink
> has a fairly vigorous spam
> >>filter at the server level also, plus I have the additional spam filter
> that I can manage. What I
> >>am seeing, though, is an increase in the number of emails that have
> viruses attached. Earthlink
> >>quarantines those and sends an email notice. Earthlink has its problems
> at times, but their spam
> >>filtering is above average.
> >>
> >
> >My mail server offers spam filtering but I don't make use of it since
> >I'd have to log on to the server to check what it's doing. I prefer to
> >download the mail and let Thunderbird do the spam filtering. It was
> >pretty efficient at doing that until the latest round of very different
> >spam started arriving. I probably get 20 or more spam messages/day but
> >Thunderbird (at the moment) is only catching about 50%. But it does get
> >better as it learns about the new crop.
> >
>
> These server-level filters would be more effective if they were to
> examine the headers and filter out specific host servers. Many of these
> spammers will change their addresses daily, making adress-based filtering
> ineffective. Earthlink recently added a small wildcard option to the user
> spam filter, so that I can now eliminate anything having .info and other
> such spam sources.
>
> I also have an additional vector for filtering out emails. I view my
> inbox at the webmail level, delete anything I'm not interested in, read
> what's left, then save the ones I want to download with POP3 in a separate
> folder. Much more efficient than downloading everything since I do that
> with dialup.
>
> BTW: I may have a solution for continuing to use my Win98/SE machine
> for webmail. I've downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.20, which is the very last
> version for Win98/SE. I'll install it later and give it a try. I read a
> lot of comments from others who had done this and it sounds like it will
> save me from having to take a few days to build up a WinXP office machine
> on short notice.
>
> I have two sources for old software: Oldversion.com and
> Oldapps.com. Pretty handy, though they don't have everything. I still
> use PKZIP 2.0 as it was the last version that did not incorporate
> BACKWEB.EXE, which is (or was) used by a lot of spyware to send
> keyloggings, etc. back to the spyware host.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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