Email and SPAM - one cure (Outlook and Outlook Express only)
SPAM is becoming more and more a problem with today's internet access.
One tool that seems to work well (and I have looked at a lot of them) is made by
Cloudmark.
SpamNet works by maintaining a common database of known SPAM against which your incoming email is tested. This is the same database used in the Linux open-source product Vipul's Razor which has garnered very high reviews.
Incoming mail that is not caught by SpamNet can be subsequently blocked by you and your addition is added to the common database so other people will not get it.
There are other solutions based on Bayesian Filtering but the use of "Haiku Spam" (spam with random words in the subject and message body) effectively blocks this. SpamNet seems to get most of them at first whack.
30 days for free and then a couple bucks/month for access to the database and upgrades. Good stuff!
Posted by DaveH at February 13, 2004 4:06 PM