>Sure, there are alot of spam blocking programs out there
>to deal with what we don't want. This all seems like a
>temporary fix though. I get probably 60 or more "spams" a
>day now. 10 years from now what will that number be then?
>Will my computer need to devote 30% of its resources to
>processing them all?
There is no easy answer to Spam. It's part
of our daily Internet life due to the nature of the Internet
being an open source. In addition to communications and
publishing, we own one of the top five Internet Service
Providers in the greater Pittsburgh metro market area. We
put Spam filters in place offering free first level
protection and then for a small fee a second customer
control level. We stopped over 6 million pieces of Spam in
four months, yet still see a flood continue. I get 50 to
100 a day even with the filter.
What I have found is an amazing little software
program that I installed last year. It is called MailWasher
[ www.mailwasher.net ]. It has a free and paid edition. I
started with the free then bought the paid one at $20.00 (at
the time). It reads the incoming mail at the server level
before being downloaded. It is done in a windows format and
identifies Spam. You can delete, bounce and blacklist
unwanted mail. When you blacklist it, it is logged and a list
is created for future checking of your e-mail. I disabled my
Eudora program and use MailWasher to check the mail first,
then have MailWasher process the mail and start Eudora,
manually downloading.
At least from a personal and business level,
this seems the best that can be done at the moment.
Steve Myers
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Alle-Kiski Today
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Vandergrift, PA 15690 Fax 724-568-2637
steve_at_alle-kiskitoday.com
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Received on Tue Mar 18 2003 - 08:17:03 CST
