Propellerhead
20/6/06 04:51:06 PM
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Howdy,
For many years now, I have been quite content with creating filter rules in OE to avoid a SPAM overdose.
However, the spamming today has gotten so bad, that I'm now sick to death of regularly updating my filter rules, only to to achieve a 30-40% success rate !
There's an absolute shite load of spam blocking aplications out there nowadays, but because I've never looked into it, I have no idea where to start.
Could somebody please suggest which are the best free spam blockers out there? -----
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orestes
20/6/06 04:52:49 PM
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the best idea is not to give your personal email out in the first place =P -----
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johnsee
20/6/06 04:55:29 PM
Hero
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Spam Assassin -----
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Propellerhead
20/6/06 05:30:43 PM
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PS.
Anybody who says to try McAfee's Spam killer will be ignored.
Anybody who makes a dumb arsed comment like in Oreste's post, will likewise be ignored.
;-)
Edited by Propellerhead: 20/6/2006 5:37:18 PM -----
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Redhatter
20/6/06 05:39:36 PM
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Quote by orestes
the best idea is not to give your personal email out in the first place =P
Yep? How do you explain:
From: "Melendez" <Melendezcorral@doctor.com>
To: <stuardl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
Subject: Check up: Enhanced male power and unlimited prowess with your girl! The best products for the winning guys!
Date: Wen, 14 Jun 2006 12:58:05 -0500
...
Message-ID: <AUDIYCBVUJIPWJNLJBOZCOQ@ms41.hinet.net>
From: "{¤ý¸Ö«Å}¤â¾÷¦Û©ç¾ ¡]§Ú£x¤â¾÷¦³¦Ê¸Uµe¯ " <xoaynxvx@ms69.url.com.tw>
Reply-To: "{©P²Q¼z}Ãz¨Å®³¨Ó¥¤¥æ& <Stuardl@coco.8dstar.com>
To: stuardl@longlandclan.hopto.org
Subject: ÅܺAh«Ý/¦Û©ç¬y¥X/´©§U
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 11:14:07 +0800
...
From: "Flood" <Floodcontraception@journalist.com>
To: <a1aaa1azzzz1zaaaaa@longlandclan.hopto.org>
Subject: Find what you need: Average size is something which is easily forgotten
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:51:36 +0200
Those email addresses now only exist, as spamtraps. Why? Because I got sick of the double-bounces. Prior to this influx of spam, the accounts did not exist. This is the first time I've revealed these accounts... Are you going to tell me they've got a time machine of some sort, and could predict that I'd be posting this exact message now? (Ignoring the nonsensical timestamp on some of these emails)
Don't think that "not giving out your email address" will save you... there are arseholes out there who will try anything... literally. ;-) -----
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Propellerhead
21/6/06 08:47:31 AM
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Unfortunately, everytime one sends an email, they efectively risk giving out their email address to strangers.
Let's say u email a funny to a friend.
He/she finds it so hilarious, they forward your email to a dozen of their friends, without 1st the removing the :
----- Original Message -----
From: Sobolewski Group Industries P/L
To: Atomican Propellerhead
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:38 AM
Subject: test
Now, all 12 of those fiends of friends have your email address!
Worse yet, if those people all find it so funny that they then each forward it to another 3 people, then that's 48 people that now potentially have your email address recorded on their PCs..
Given the statistics on internet security, most of these 48 recipients of your email address, will have no form of spyware protection in place, & most of them will use only the crappy wniblows firewall, & there goes your email address into the wild blue yonder.
So much for not giving out your email address! lol -----
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Chazzozz!!
21/6/06 09:29:55 AM
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POPFile is my spamkiller-of-choice. Get it here:
http://getpopfile.org/
Like any good spam filter, you need to spend a bit of time 'training' it, but once it's working you'll find it's excellent. I've been using it for three years now and it's filtered near 120k e-mails with less than a thousand errors (856, to be exact). That's a 99.27% accuracy rate.
It's also completely free (both no $$ and open-source) so there's no nagging for payment. -----
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bum
21/6/06 09:44:16 AM
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I use my yahoo/msn for my general crap so dont care about all the spam. my gmail account is for anything that warants a real email address. Keep is private enough and you'l loose the spam. I also use pookmail for any sus sites that ask for my email. -----
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osama_bin_athlon
21/6/06 10:15:45 AM
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I use the BitDefender suite - covers everything AV, anti-spy, anti-spam, firewall etc, I also use Adaware and SpyBot.
I also uise 2x email addresses, yahoo and gmail
that's about it
:)
Edited by osama_bin_athlon: 21/6/2006 10:17:18 AM -----
a jihad on anchovies
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hawkowl
21/6/06 11:19:14 AM
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me, if i stopped all that spam i wouldn't even know that my penis was small or that i could get rich just by clicking on this link and helping some poor millionaire transfer his riches into my bank account.. ;) -----
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Propellerhead
21/6/06 11:42:22 AM
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Ok, so there are 2 contenders on the table;
Spam Assassin (thanks Johnsee),
&
POPFile (thanks Chazzozz!).
So has anybody had experience with both of these progys, & if so, which did u find better over all ?
Edited by Propellerhead: 23/6/2006 12:00:08 PM -----
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Propellerhead
21/6/06 02:06:56 PM
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Oh, the Irony !
By having posted this thread I guess it's not exactly unsolicited (thus not technically SPAM), but would u believe that sombody signed up as a member here just so that they could send me a PM offering commercial SPAM blocking solutions for money !!!
Un-fucking-believable!
PMSL.
Edit>....
PS. who thinks I should report this to a moderator ?
Edited by Propellerhead: 21/6/2006 2:12:59 PM -----
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hawkowl
21/6/06 02:31:28 PM
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yeah, BAN him!
Seriously retail must suck if thats what you gotta do to make a sale! -----
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Propellerhead
23/6/06 12:10:05 PM
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Johnsee,
I just looked up SpamAssassin, & it appears that there is no version to Suit WindowsXP ?
In fact, it appears to be aimed at servers rather than desktops.
To make my self clear, I am looking for a Stand-alone spam solution, for desktop computers running WinXP with OE.
Anybody have any other suggestions ?
Edited by Propellerhead: 23/6/2006 1:54:03 PM -----
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Chazzozz!!
23/6/06 06:01:14 PM
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Well, at the sake of repeating myself, I suggest you give POPFile a try. It's standalone, will work on XP, and there's an excellent Quick Start guide that covers installation and setup:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?QuickStart
and how to set it up with popular e-mail clients (including OE):
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?QuickStart/Clients -----
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Propellerhead
23/6/06 07:02:53 PM
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Thanks again, but I heard (& Thanked) you the 1st time (See my 3rd last post).
Infact, I'm in the process of downloading POPFile as we speak.
The thing is, I'm not 1 to install & uninstall software on a whim. I like to research each option & evaluate them as best as I can b4 actually installing anything.
So when in my last post I asked if anybody had any other suggestions, I guess seeing as POPFile was already under consideration, I probably shoulda said "Anybody other than Chazzozz".
Sorry for not being clearer, & thanks again for the suggestion.
Now to anybody else, I find it hard to believe that there are no other alternatives to POPFile, so are there any other suggestions. -----
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bum
23/6/06 07:31:15 PM
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Without a doubt the best program for removing spam is fdisk. -----
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bum is happily eating donuts until he gets a call
bum is on the rail my bum is on the rail look at me my bum is on the rail my bum is on the man my bum is on the man it's alot of fun to put your bum on a
bum is shrinking?
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Propellerhead
24/6/06 01:54:37 AM
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Pitty it's no good for removing spam forum posts.
Edited by Propellerhead: 24/6/2006 1:56:53 AM -----
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thatp1g
24/6/06 11:26:33 AM
Overlord
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I like spambully.
its effective bayesian filtering seems to work and i really like the "learn as spam, bounce, punish and add domain to spammers list" option. There's something about the concept of 'punishing' a spammer that invokes mental spanking images.
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Propellerhead
24/6/06 10:01:43 PM
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Punish the Spamers hey. Now that sounds interesting :)
I'll look into Spam buly too then. Thanks thatp1g. -----
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