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

Fri Jan 9 04:57:00 2004

I used Mozilla Thunderbird for a while (I think it's the same thing) and 
I'll agree it's very good, but it's also very slow and bloated (only a 
400MHz Pentium II, 256K RAM here) so I gave up on it in the end. I'm 
unconvinced about bayesian filters, as the newsgroups have plenty of 
reports from people who find they suddenly start letting through more spam 
and dumping wanted mail, and since you can't see why the filter made the 
decision it did, there's not a lot you can do about it. But I certainly 
think that anyone who is still manually dealing with spam should follow up 
some of the good suggestions in this thread, then they can literally forget 
about it.

Getting a qsl.net address is another good idea, as I believe you 
automatically get spam filtering with it. Certainly I get only a few spams 
on this address, despite the fact that it is visible on the web in the 
Elecraft list archives.

73,
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Julian, G4ILO. (RSGB, ARRL, G-QRP, K2 #392)
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo

Frank Hunter <[email protected]>

I'll let you all in on the worlds best kept secret - Mozilla Mail, it's 
available for free over at www.mozilla.org and has a feature list longer 
than I'd care to write about :-) but crucially it does have some very 
sophisticated and wonderful bayesian spam filtering