[H-GEN] Spam, Humbug lists

[Jim Clark]

ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:

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>G'day,
>
>Today for the first time I came into work and found my spam email 
>outnumbering my legitimate email by a factor of 10:1.
>
I've been getting this for a while now (possibly because I've  had my 
address long before
spam was a problem).  It got to the point where even the built in spam 
filtering of thunderbird
was not able to successfully cope.

But I have been running with ASSP  ( http://assp.sourceforge.net/ ) for 
about 3 weeks now, and
it has been terrific!  I have configured whitelists for domains I need 
to receive email from, and
for others, the baysean filter scans the mail (and holds the spam).
I think one of the more important features of this solution is that if 
someone not on the whitelist
sends me email that looked like spam, they would at least receive 
immediate notification that the
mail is blocked (something that the auto spam filter in the client does 
not do).

Has anyone else tried ASSP?  (thoughts, comments?)


> Spam has been 
>ratcheting up on this address for some time now, and I wondered if I could 
>find the cause (or at least something to blame :). I know it's too late to 
>save this address from spam and that it will now continue unabated until I 
>find another job, but I notice that the following humbug archive messages 
>contain my email address in plaintext:
>
>http://archive.humbug.org.au/humbug-chat/2003-08/msg00030.html, and
>http://archive.humbug.org.au/humbug-chat/2003-08/msg00020.html
>
>I found both emails using a google search for my email address. Perhaps 
>the archive censorship software needs tweaking?
>
>Benjamin.
>
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Jim Clark
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