[AccessD] OT - Spam Blocker

Any preliminary result on Spam Assassin?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Reid" <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - Spam Blocker


> We just started to test Spam Assasin on our servers at work. Oddd thing is
I
> dont get any spam. I use a hotmail account for anything I do on the web
and
> leave it to Microsoft to clear out every so often.
>
> If your putting your email address on the web make sure you do it in such
a
> way that the robots etc cant recognise it as such.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - Spam Blocker
>
>
> > "This is really ridiculous." JC
> >
> > ...I should only wish I could slow it down to 60 a day :(
> >
> > William Hindman
> > So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his
> birth,
> > his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to
work,
> > to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine
> to
> > make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
> > -- Thomas Wolfe
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 1:27 PM
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - Spam Blocker
> >
> >
> > > If you use Outlook, try
> > >
> > > http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html
> > >
> > > I use this.  Very good Bayesian filter.  The only thing to know is
that
> > you
> > > have to set the "Certain Spam" number down to 20 and the "Suspected
> Spam"
> > > number down to about 10.  At those settings it nails 99% of my Spam
(no,
> > no
> > > statistics with this one but it is native to Outlook).
> > >
> > > The Spam volume coming to me has doubled (or more) in the last month.
> It
> > > was already about 60 / day after getting rid of an old mail forwarder
> that
> > > was 100% Spam.  This is really ridiculous.
> > >
> > > John W. Colby
> > > www.colbyconsulting.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky
Smolin -
> > > Beach Access Software
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 10:57 AM
> > > To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > > Subject: [AccessD] OT - Spam Blocker
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear List:
> > >
> > > It's time to get a Spam Filter I guess (sigh).  What do you all use
and
> do
> > > they really save more time than outlook's "Block Sender" and mail
rules
> to
> > > route mail to a spam folder based on whether or not he words Viagra,
> debt,
> > > breast or penis are contained in the message and/or heading?
> > >
> > > MTIA,
> > >
> > > Rocky Smolin
> > > Beach Access Software
> > >
> > > P.S. I am now being spammed by people who want me to buy their spam
> > filter.
> > > Ironic, no?
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