Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Nov 6 16:24:42 CST 2003
I think Spamnet is a terrible idea. Just two quick reasons (there are several technical ones ): It queries a central server for every every email you received That's got to be nearly as much a waste of bandwidth as spam itself. You are relying on other peoples judgement of what is spam. One man's spam is another man's spiced ham :-) On 6 Nov 2003 at 9:41, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote: > Thanks for that. Looks promising. Like a virus library. Blocks emails > which have been identified as spam by a central repository. > > Rocky > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:16 AM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Blocked Sender's List or Is this the right list > forthis kind ofquestion? > > > > Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software wrote: > > > > >Yeah, I'm thinking so. It appears from my last thread that K9 is the > best > > >way to go. Except you still have to delete them by hand, no? It shunts > all > > >the stuff it thinks is spam to a folder for you to review? > > > > > >Or can you make it automatically delete email with certain words like > > >viagara or penis? > > > > > >Rocky > > > > > > > > > > > just found this on cloudmark's site, > > http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ > > > > a free (albiet beta) copy of Cloudmark for Outlook Express. > > > > In Thunderbird you can set the time to wait before the automatic removal > > of spam, (if you want automatic removal that is...) > > > > -- > > -Francisco > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support.