[dba-Tech] Spam, spam, spam, spam ....

Occasional spam?  Lucky you. 

I don't get that many, 10-30 a day.  And I switched to Thunderbird a 
month ago or so.  But it never seems to get over about 50% of the spam.  
Is there some way to train it better?

Rocky


Francisco Tapia wrote:
> how about adopting thunderbird?  it's very outlook express-ish , and comes
> with built in spam blocking tools.  I of course perfer gmail now, but at
> home on my home email address I still use thunderbird to help weed out the
> occasional spam...
>
>
>
> On 3/6/06, Andy Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Well I'll suggest it but if I know my mate he'll want a freebie. Thanks
>> John.
>>
>> -- Andy Lacey
>> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
>>> John Bartow
>>> Sent: 06 March 2006 18:56
>>> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Spam, spam, spam, spam ....
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>> Not free but of the OTS apps I've tried, CA's Anti-Spam has
>>> worked marvels for me. I've tried a few others that were
>>> pretty good but not as good. CAAS has been approx. 99%
>>> acurate for me with Outlook 2003. This far surpasses the
>>> previous apps I've tried.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> John B.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>> A mate has asked my advice, so I'm bringing the question to
>>> they-who-know-everything (ie you lot). Can anyone suggest
>>> good, free, spam-blocking software, compatible with Outlook
>>> Express, that uses techniques more sophisticated than putting
>>> rules in Outlook looking for specific words. An example he
>>> gave me is an email received recently with no Subject and
>>> just an image in the Body, oh and one of those sent-by's
>>> which changes all the time. Is there anything out there which
>>> could detect that as spam? At work our ISP uses heuristics to
>>> spot heavy traffic coming from a certain source and flags it
>>> up tht way, but I'd guess that that's always a paid-for
>>> service. What do you all think?
>>>
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