Online Spam filters

Matblack · 14-11-2006, 16:31

I am seriously considering starting to use one of these, I get maybe 2 emails a day that I want to read and around 20 spam, this has increased a lot recently as I seem to have got on a list somewhere which has filled my inbox with rubbish

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Who uses one and what do you think of it?

MB

Feek · 14-11-2006, 16:36

I use SpamPal, it's not quite as effective now that I've started managing spam on my mail router but it's pretty good.

Matblack · 14-11-2006, 16:38

Thanks, I was thinking more online than inline though, you know one of the ones which makes senders answer an authentication email before they get added the filter?

MB

Feek · 14-11-2006, 16:59

Oh right, don't know about that sort.

Matblack · 14-11-2006, 17:05

This sort of thing http://www.spamarrest.com/howitworks/

MB

Will · 14-11-2006, 17:28

That looks pretty neat. It would just be a bore having to enter all the email addresses unless you could import your outlook email contacts to it. I guess automated reponses like confirmations can just be allowed through via the web interface. I might have to show that to a few people. Never had any experience with it. For $74 for 2 years it's a bargain too.

I use a mail server myself that I have complete control over and I get about 1 or 2 very mild spam emails through a week, if that.

Mark · 14-11-2006, 18:50

That sort of thing is fine for personal email use. For commercial stuff (i.e. buying stuff online) it's a non-starter unless you know in advance where every email is coming from and can whitelist it.

Personally, I'd find that sort of authentication annoying and would only use it if I had to.

Beansprout · 15-11-2006, 00:23

I'm just in the process of fiddling with new anti-spam solutions for my company's servers...using a variety of methods - pretty much everything except graylisting, infact, since I don't believe in the whole "reply to this e-mail" philosophy as it generates lots of traffic, confusion and annoyance imo. But everything else...is in there....bring it on, spammers

Kell_ee001 · 31-12-2006, 23:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Le Hoff

mild spam

14-11-2006, 16:31	#1
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	Online Spam filters I am seriously considering starting to use one of these, I get maybe 2 emails a day that I want to read and around 20 spam, this has increased a lot recently as I seem to have got on a list somewhere which has filled my inbox with rubbish . Who uses one and what do you think of it? MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

14-11-2006, 16:36	#2
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	I use SpamPal, it's not quite as effective now that I've started managing spam on my mail router but it's pretty good. __________________

14-11-2006, 16:38	#3
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	Thanks, I was thinking more online than inline though, you know one of the ones which makes senders answer an authentication email before they get added the filter? MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

14-11-2006, 16:59	#4
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Oh right, don't know about that sort. __________________

14-11-2006, 17:05	#5
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	This sort of thing http://www.spamarrest.com/howitworks/ MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

14-11-2006, 17:28	#6
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	That looks pretty neat. It would just be a bore having to enter all the email addresses unless you could import your outlook email contacts to it. I guess automated reponses like confirmations can just be allowed through via the web interface. I might have to show that to a few people. Never had any experience with it. For $74 for 2 years it's a bargain too. I use a mail server myself that I have complete control over and I get about 1 or 2 very mild spam emails through a week, if that. __________________ *No No!*

14-11-2006, 18:50	#7
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	That sort of thing is fine for personal email use. For commercial stuff (i.e. buying stuff online) it's a non-starter unless you know in advance where every email is coming from and can whitelist it. Personally, I'd find that sort of authentication annoying and would only use it if I had to.

15-11-2006, 00:23	#8
Beansprout Long Island Iced Tea Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 488	I'm just in the process of fiddling with new anti-spam solutions for my company's servers...using a variety of methods - pretty much everything except graylisting, infact, since I don't believe in the whole "reply to this e-mail" philosophy as it generates lots of traffic, confusion and annoyance imo. But everything else...is in there....bring it on, spammers __________________ Uploader Cartoons World Wind