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

I use SpamBayes for Outlook, a Bayesian filter.  It is AMAZING but... it
still has the occasional 1 out of 500 emails (or even less) that are good
emails from someone out there somewhere.  Real messages sent to spam for
some reason.  my old email address simply gets so much spam now, more than
300 per day and climbing, that it just doesn't make any sense anymore to
fight that battle.  Since turning it off I don't get a single one.  My old
address was on my web site for many years and just got put into every list
out there.  I will create an address specifically for my web site, use one
of the tricks mentioned, and if it starts getting hammered I'll just close
that account and open another for the web site.  Since the vast majority of
my real email is from associates who will eventually get my new address and
switch to that, my flood of spam will just stop entirely.

Believe me, it's nice not getting a single spam in 2 days.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:45 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] Spam Filter was New EMail Address


I *USED* to use mailwasher but I got tiered of batteling spam and
sending all these bounced messages...in the end I ended up moving to
Thunderbird, which does a suprisingly good job of flitering out
junkmail... I don't say that to pursade anyone... but in my case it's
been a life saver to filter out at my end w/ Thunderbird. :)

(google: Mozilla Thunderbird)


Francisco H Tapia wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>


--
-Francisco


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