I know that there was some discussion of Spam on the newsgroup(s) awhile back (of course I can't find it now). In any event, I have been using Spam Net
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I know that there was some discussion of Spam on the newsgroup(s) awhile back (of course I can't find it now). In any event, I have been using Spam Net
Want ZERO spam? For $30 a year I route my E-mail though spamcop.net.
NO spam in my inbox... period!
!!! Just a happy user... no affiliation with spamcop.
I just plain ass got tired of dealing with it all, and spamcop reports seem to be read carefully by administrators... block listed seems to hurt a wee bit ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Thanks for the tip Jim.
It uses P-P peer to peer, to determine what's spam. Unless they've added something else since it was first released.
So in actuality, it does indeed use a very good algorithm, known as humans reading and marking the email as spam. ;-)
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Guess who is buying Spamcop?
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So who is it? (My web access is down right now... but mail and news are working.)
...Jim Thompson
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My web access is back. Interesting possibility... let's hope it works out.
(I have noted some DOS crap against SpamCop in recent weeks. Maybe some financing will help the fight.)
My arrangement is working marvelously:
Outbound mail by SMTP thru Cox (required... Cox doesn't allow SMTP thru remote servers).
Inbound mail comes first to Dallas to my website provider where "certain" addresses go straight to /dev/null/. The rest are forwarded to SpamCop.net (*net* not *com*... *com* is a ripoff of the name).
At SpamCop.net E-mails are subjected to blacklists (user selectable), then to SpamAssassin.
I POP from SpamCop.net to receive the remainder.
All "spam" is held for my review. After white listing a few newsletters I get, I now verify and dump 100% into the SpamCop reporting system.
For the, now-about-one-per-month, spam that gets thru to me, Spamnix scarfs it into a folder where I also report to SpamCop.
...Jim Thompson
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I can understand the rage ;-)
The bill will do no good. May even make things worse by giving some legality to some forms of advertising.
How do you enforce it?
Most spam routes thru Brazil, China, Korea, Estonia,... on and on...
Only black listing will do the job... and that's *private* enterprise.
Or, a method I like... make your local ISP responsible for letting any spam through... with heavy fines. Guess who'll learn to apply blacklisting really fast ?:-)
...Jim Thompson
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There was endless discussion as to whether or not it would do any good and you are correct, it will probably have limited utility; but it does set a precedent and that is probably a good thing. I like your idea of holding the I.S.P. accountable for spam; it makes perfect sense to me and that would probably be the next step, with much kicking and screaming from A.O.L. et al. ;-)
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"on penalty of death". Ah, I always appreciate moderation ;-)
--------------- Once a society knows what it wants, it SHOULD be able to get it ABSOLUTELY, and there's nothing wrong with that! And lately, EVERYONE agrees that SPAM and Telemarketing should be STOPPED, so LET'S JUST DO IT!! Anyone who violates that law isn't having a moment's insanity, aren't committing a crime of desperation or passion, they're committing a calcluating vicious assault upon our laws, and they should be KILLED OUTRIGHT!
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In article , snipped-for-privacy@catskill.net mentioned...
But do you want others invading the privacy of your email? Not long ago email was considered private, and having others filter it, i.e. examine it for its contents, was considered a loss of privacy.
But spam has changed a lot of things.
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9-11 and Homeland Security have changed things even more. If I wanted to ensure privacy, I would resort to some pretty heavy duty encrypting.ElectronDepot website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.