[access-uk] Anti-spam program experiences
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:01:44 +0100
I asked for advicehere and elsewhere on anti-spam programs recently and
thought I'd share my experience thus far..
The first one I tried was Spam Washer:
http://www.mailwasher.net/
It's fairly accessable but the free version only deals with one account at a
time and I didn't find it that easy or intuitive to understand.
the one I'm using just now is Cactus Spam:
http://www.codeode.com/spamfilter/index.html
this is freeware and seems to live up to its author's claims. It works well
with Outlook Express which I use and a good many other email clients too. You
have
to tell it at first what counts as spam and you can tell it about good messages
too should it get things wrong. The interface is pretty speech friendly but
the training arena window where you train Cactus Spam seems to get corrupted
after some time spent defining messages as spam or good. I don't have the
clear list when closing arena checked so that when I exit and re-enter CS the
list is still there and uncorrupted.
I should say the program stays in the background and can be accessed via a hot
key or via the sys tray. (I find the hotkey is slow to bring the training
window up.) It marks spam with the prefix *** cactus spam *** (note the
stars.) You can then set up an OE filter to shift all these prefixed
spam emails to a folder of your choice. pretty easy.
I'll end by mentioning another solution based here in the UK but used all over
the world, seemingly. this is Spamjjab. It's at:
www.spamjab.com
This seems to be free - at the moment - for personal use and seems to be highly
thought of.(or is that just presentational spin on the site's part) but I
think it probably does work well, although I've not tried Spamjab.
Seeing as how the net is getting to be such a virtual bear garden these days I
would hazzard a bet that more and more ordinary folk who don't want to get to
grips with more and more anti-spam, anti-phishing, and other scams may choose
to pay up and leave others to the complexities of weeding out this trash. that
is, unless the internet really does get its act together and become, by
default, a less dangerous place.
HTH.
Ray
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