Spaminator (was: anyone know any good call by call dialup ISPs in California?)

[Charles Martin]

> From: Harry D.  Corsover <harry at corsazzi.com>
> I use email for business. So, if Spaminator _ever_ filtered out an
> important email, it could cost me money and business relationships. So,
> I'd have to check it twice a day.
>
Lots of people use Earthlink's mail for business. It's not like you 
can't check it if you're nervous.

Soundlike you are an ideal candidate for Apple's Mail.app Junk filter. 
Any email the program thinks is junk is sent to a Junk filter, and you 
can check that folder anytime you like to make sure no important mail 
somehow got in there.

I can tell you that in several months of use, Apple's Mail has YET to 
flag even **one** legitimate email as junk (OTOH,  in that same period 
a handful of spam pieces have gotten through as legit). I don't know 
how the Spaminator works, but Mail uses a bayesian filter to focus not 
just on headers but on the content of the message in order to figure 
out junk from legit. This seems to work tremendously well (unless 
you're in the multi-level marketing scams, penis enlargement or sex 
website businesses I suppose!). You might want to check THAT out rather 
than trust an ISP to do the filtering for you.

_Chas_

Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal, 24-Jan-03 , commenting on Apple's 
growing arsenal of hardware, OS and software that is clearly superior 
to anything in the Windows world: "It's like someone forgot to send 
them the Resistance is Futile memo."