[Elecraft] Please do not use Earthlink's spam blocker

Tom Hammond [email protected]
Wed Jan 7 11:06:09 2004


Brian Riley wrote:

>I run a Mac with OSX, I use a Bayesian filter based piece of software 
>called SpamSeive. After the first two weeks of use it required me to spend 
>at most about five minutes a day looking at messages and training it. 
>After four weeks I spend about two minutes a day eyeballing the 'junk" 
>folder and relabelling false determinations about one or two every other 
>day. There are
>equivalent pieces of software for Linux and Windows. It doesn't matter 
>what emailer you use the spam blocking software is there and will work 
>with just about any of them.

For what it's worth, Eudora v6.x now uses Baysian filtering of SPAM and it 
sometimes allows 2-3 (of WELL over 100) SPAMS to pass UNcaught each day. I 
think this is pretty decent track record.

Of course, YMMV.

73,

Tom   N0SS