Best anti-spam solution?

[Gary Whitta]

What do YOU do to live a spam-free existence? Any suggestions/tips gratefully received...

[mystery]

Blacklists + Bayesian filtering + reporting everythig I get through Spamcop. I still get a lot, but I like the fight.

[JD]

Spam Assassin (www.spamassassin.org/) works quite well (still can be tricked though.) There are some Anti-spam tools based on SA, but I forgot the names. I also hear the spam filter in Mozilla Messenger (1.5) does a very good job. I think that one incorporates a Bayesian filter. Also, according to a recent test I read it works notably more reliable than the one used in the current version (0.2) of Mozilla Thunderbird.

[Jason McCullough]

Single-source email addresses. I have one for qt3, one for each business (amazon, paypal, whatever), and one personal-only one. Kind of have to run your own domain for this.

I get maybe one or two a week.

[Stroker Ace]

www.mailinator.com

one-off public email server.

send an email to [email protected], and you (or anyone else) can go check it there, no passwords required.

it'll be deleted after a few hours, but it's perfect for registering for a site that just *has* to have your email address.

[chet]

That is an excellent service. Pretty funny to randomly enter words and see all the spam and registrations.

Chet

[Bub, Andrew]

Good tip!
I asked about this recently and went with Mozilla Thunderbird. The built in filter (why the hell doesn't Outlook Express do this?) is now stopping about 80% of all spam and that's after only a few days of use.

(I was getting over 700 of those MS spams w/virus a day at one point)

[Brian Rubin]

Good tip!
I asked about this recently and went with Mozilla Thunderbird. The built in filter (why the hell doesn't Outlook Express do this?) is now stopping about 80% of all spam and that's after only a few days of use.
Hey Andrew, thanks to your recommendation, I tried Thunderbird, and I LOVE it. It's SO much nicer than OE, feature rich, and free. And yes, the spam blocker thingy is already working pretty well, even after one day! Thanks for the tip!

[Bub, Andrew]

The only thing it doesn't seem to have that OE does, is those arrows. I liked judging each mail in an open window and then sparing the one's that pleased me by simply hitting the down arrow. I felt like a Roman Emperor at the Colliseum.

[DennyA]

Spamnix (a Eudora add-on) supports Bayesian filtering and does a killer job catching 99% of spams.

On the Mac, I'm just using the OS X Mail.app, and it does a very good job itself. Not sure what algorithms it's using.

Finally putting my Mindspring account (which my primary address was actually forwarding to) to sleep helped the most, though. I'd had that account since 1995 and it was getting about 150 to 200 spams a day.

[Sean Tudor]

I am using the spam filtering that now comes with Eudora 6.0. Works very well. Only downside is that it needs to download the email first to filter it.

[Chris Nahr]

You can limit the download to just the first kilobyte of an e-mail, though. That avoids downloading huge HTML mails or virus/worm attachments, assuming your ISP doesn't filter them.