[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:18 -0800, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> The amount of spam I've been getting lately makes it impossible to 
> work.  The filter that comes with Thunderbird only catches about half 
> because the spammers use images that show up even though I have images 
> disabled.  Does anyone know of a good anti-spam system that works 
> Thunderbird?

I use a combination of filtering at my mail server and spamassassin. It
works pretty well, but is in no way perfect. I have read that this new
wave of spam is being sent using botnets so most antispam systems fail
to stop it. About the only thing that works are challenge response
systems and white lists.

                Bob Pendleton

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