Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 68.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:07:17 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: anti-spamming devices?
The sight just now of a message promising in its subject-line "a lean, fit
and young humanist" -- surely a challenge to us all (present company
excepted, of course :-) -- put me in mind of anti-spamming software. To
date I have tried the Blue Squirrel offering, Spam Sleuth (ca $30 US), and
more recently Spam Assassin http://au.spamassassin.org/ (free).
The former has numerous intriguing bells and whistles and works quite well
-- except for the fact that in my experience it on occasion keeps back
messages that it has nevertheless classified as good. (A message of
complaint to the manufacturer received only a "do it right"-style response,
and since I was already doing it right, I was annoyed.) Spam Sleuth also
keeps messages back by storing them in its own internal files, and as far
as I know provides no way other than an executive rating-change to forward
a message to the in-box of one's e-mail client, which as noted doesn't
always work.
The latter works only slightly less well but so far has not kept back any
messages that it shouldn't have. The messages thought to be spam are simply
put in a folder in one's e-mail client and so are easily fetched if need
be. The price is persuasive.
Are there other anti-spamming devices we should all know about?
Yours,
WM
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