[dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] Spam Filter was New EMail Address

Spam and Email filtering is a serious and interesting topic, I'm moving 
the thread to the dba-tech list where it can continue to grow :),


Thanks,


Joe Hecht wrote:

>I have been using Mail Washer as a spam filter and successfully reduced
>my spam load.
>
>You download your e-mail into a new window. You can go in and mark the
>spam and it gets bounced back as a bad address. You can either mark 1
>address or an entire domain as spam. Click one button to process the
>mail and it then downloads into your e-mail client.
>
>
>JOE HECHT
>LOS ANGELES CA 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:59 PM
>To: AccessD
>Subject: [AccessD] New EMail Address
>
>Anyone who has me in their address book should note that my email
>address
>has changed to jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com (notice the W).  I have
>turned
>off jcolby at colbyconsulting.com due to an overwhelming flood of spam,
>approaching 300 spam emails a day.  While my email filter was extremely
>accurate in getting them out of my inbox there is the occasional (1 in
>500
>or so) false positives where a good email gets put out in the spam
>folder.
>It is getting very hard to find them so it's time to just shut that
>email
>box down.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
>  
>


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-Francisco