17.076 anti-spamming software

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 01:39:35 EDT

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       [1] From: "Hugh A. Cayless" <hcayless@email.unc.edu> (9)
             Subject: Re: 17.068 anti-spamming software?

       [2] From: Patrick Rourke <ptrourke@methymna.com> (6)
             Subject: Re: anti-spamming software?

       [3] From: Stan Ruecker <sruecker@ualberta.ca> (19)
             Subject: RE: 17.068 anti-spamming software?

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             Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:27:42 +0100
             From: "Hugh A. Cayless" <hcayless@email.unc.edu>
             Subject: Re: 17.068 anti-spamming software?

    Willard,
              Mozilla 1.4 (still in beta, I think) has a built in Bayesian
    spam-identification tool, which marks messages as "junk"
    automatically. Junk messages can be forwarded to a folder, or simply
    deleted en masse. It takes a while to learn what you consider to be junk,
    and it does still give some false positives and negatives, but on the whole
    it seems to work quite well. It has certainly made my inbox more manageable.

    Cheers,
    Hugh

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             Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:28:21 +0100
             From: Patrick Rourke <ptrourke@methymna.com>
             Subject: Re: anti-spamming software?

    Although I use SpamAssassin in the office, with the Guinevere tool for
    GroupWise (Guinevere is far from free, but it is after all intended for
    businesses and provides more than just anti-virus and anti-spam
    capabilities), at home I use POPFILE, which is also free software, and
    provides email categorization as well as spam elimination.

    Patrick Rourke

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             Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:29:20 +0100
             From: Stan Ruecker <sruecker@ualberta.ca>
             Subject: RE: 17.068 anti-spamming software?

    I don't have any personal experience with it, but someone gave me a
    reference a while ago to Spamnet, which is apparently a system that
    allows a community of like-minded recipients to collectively block spam.
    Here's the URL:

    http://cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/

    yrs,
    Stan Ruecker

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    Department of Art and Design
    University of Alberta
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    - H. H. The Dalai Lama. Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind: Living the Four Noble
    Truths. Trans. Robert R. Barr. NY: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999,
    p. 157.



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