Re: [OM] OT. Spam

[Chuck Norcutt]

My mail server offers spam filtering but I don't make use of it since 
I'd have to log on to the server to check what it's doing.  I prefer to 
download the mail and let Thunderbird do the spam filtering.  It was 
pretty efficient at doing that until the latest round of very different 
spam started arriving.  I probably get 20 or more spam messages/day but 
Thunderbird (at the moment) is only catching about 50%.  But it does get 
better as it learns about the new crop.
I assume a server-side spam filter could be much more efficient since it 
would have experience of all spam messages it sees rather than just that 
of one individual.  But I find filtering the residual myself is less 
bothersome than logging on to the server directly.
I suppose I could use my gmail account but I don't since Google knows 
too much about me as it is.
Chuck Norcutt


On 10/29/2014 10:18 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> > > I've also been receiving more spam than previously for the last couple of
> > > months.  Most of it seems very amateur and/or clearly from non-native
> > > English speakers.  Spam generating software is available for sale and I
> > > suspect that's where the amateur looking stuff is coming from.  I don't
> > > think the operating systems or email systems we run have any part in what
> > > happens on the wider net.
> > For what it's worth I've not seen any increase.  I use gmail as a mail
> > client (which has excellent spam filtering on the server side) and I have
> > received 81 in the last 30 days - all of which were already flagged as spam
> > and went straight to the Spam folder.
> > Frittered spam Jez
>       I'm not seeing any exceptional amount of spam emails.  Earthlink has a 
> fairly vigorous spam filter at the server level also, plus I have the 
> additional spam filter that I can manage.  What I am seeing, though, is an 
> increase in the number of emails that have viruses attached.  Earthlink 
> quarantines those and sends an email notice.  Earthlink has its problems at 
> times, but their spam filtering is above average.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>       - Hunter S. Thompson
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