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Re: [OM] OT. Spam

Subject: Re: [OM] OT. Spam
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:25:30 +0000
As I wrote a couple of days ago, spamcop.net does a good job of shutting down 
spammers by sending messages to the originating servers.

Chris

> On 29 Oct 2014, at 15:47, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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