Outlying spam
Like many people, I’ve been deluged by virus-laden and bounced emails (with my address spoofed as the sender) as a result of the MyDoom virus. I’ve also had the usual quantity of spam, through which I have to dredge to find my genuine email. But among the usual crop of âhot chicks/viagra/Atkins dietâ tempting offers, one spam stood outâmetallic yarn on special offer.
And my metallic yarn needs have gone unfulfilled for so long.
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i would guess they hope to entangle some brassy kittens...
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bsag: out of interest, which email client do you use? I know the answer is probably here somewhere - but it's late, and it's easier to ask 
by djn1 @ 28/01/2004 11:01 pm • Permalink •
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... and what I meant to include:
If you use Entourage I once came across a really good tutorial for setting up spam filters:
http://www.mikey-san.net/filtering.html
It works really well.
by djn1 @ 28/01/2004 11:01 pm • Permalink •
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djn1: You've caught me out in an exaggeration - I do have spam filtering in place, but I still maintain that two bits of unfiltered spam is two bits too many
Plus, I still have to give my spam box a quick look over every once in a while to make sure nothing legitimate has slipped through.
To answer your question, I use Mailsmith (which is excellent, and I went on about at some length - http://www.rousette.org.uk/mt-static/blog/archives/000355.html ), and I got a free copy of SpamSieve ( http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/index.shtml ), which does a great job of filtering most spam. Over the period I have been monitoring it, it has caught 95.6% of spam.
by bsag @ 29/01/2004 8:01 am • Permalink •
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