[HM] Re: Spam blocker recommendation?

[David Crandon]

If I'm not mistaken, Apple's Mail spamblocker is similar to the
commericial product Brightmail. I think it's patterned after their technology.

My ISP, attbi, uses this technology at their mail servers and it works great.

David Crandon

Jane Sprando wrote:
> 
> I use Bouncer. It is a free spam filter that I got on Version Tracker.
> 
> Jane
> 
> > From: Debbi Young <djy at citynet.net>
> > Reply-To: "Home Macintosh Users List"<HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:26:32 -0500
> > To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Subject: [HM] Spam blocker recommendation?
> >
> > Can any of you recommend a reliable way to block spam? I'm running 9.2.2 on
> > an iMac, using Outlook Express 5.05. My ISP has a filtering system at their
> > end, which won't allow anything through from a yahoo.com or hotmail.com
> > address, nor anything that's sent to a group. It is not user-identifiable,
> > and the only option is to accept all e-mail and filter it myself. In order
> > to receive some information I want to subscribe to, I have to accept
> > everything.
> >
> > I noticed there was a 5.06 version of OE available, and wonder if it might
> > address the spam issue better than the mail rules currently available. Any
> > suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > I have an alternate e-mail address, but would rather not read e-mail from
> > the web.
> >
> > Debbi
> > WV
> >
> 
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