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spam filtering
I use SpamAssassin scores and procmail to cut the flow of spam to my inbox, but more and more spam has been getting through in the last couple months as -- I guess -- the spammers get more crafty. I haven't invested effort in examining what's going on; I'm using the lowest SpamAssassin thresholds I can without generating too many false positives.
But I use pobox.com (a permanent forwarding address), and a week or so ago they turned on spam filtering at their end. They don't throw suspected spam away (at least not right away); they buffer it and give you the chance to look at headers and decide what to send through. They also offer a whitelist, so if they tag something as spam that wasn't you can at least flag that sender as being ok. I haven't looked to see if I can make it interact with mailing lists.
In the last few days Pobox has caught about 200 messages for me. Three of them weren't spam. All three were from Yahoo mailing lists. (Yahoo adds ads to messages.) I think this is great! I don't know what rules Pobox is using to identify spam, and I assume that most of that spam would have been flagged as spam by my direct provider if it had gotten that far, but maybe not all of it would have. And I'm all for dealing with the problem at the earliest available step in the delivery process. It saves wear and tear on my provider, after all. (Providers, actually; I mirror my mail stream against the possibility of outages.)
Pobox was already worth the (roughly) dollar a month I pay for a permanent address, but this makes it even more worthwhile.
But I use pobox.com (a permanent forwarding address), and a week or so ago they turned on spam filtering at their end. They don't throw suspected spam away (at least not right away); they buffer it and give you the chance to look at headers and decide what to send through. They also offer a whitelist, so if they tag something as spam that wasn't you can at least flag that sender as being ok. I haven't looked to see if I can make it interact with mailing lists.
In the last few days Pobox has caught about 200 messages for me. Three of them weren't spam. All three were from Yahoo mailing lists. (Yahoo adds ads to messages.) I think this is great! I don't know what rules Pobox is using to identify spam, and I assume that most of that spam would have been flagged as spam by my direct provider if it had gotten that far, but maybe not all of it would have. And I'm all for dealing with the problem at the earliest available step in the delivery process. It saves wear and tear on my provider, after all. (Providers, actually; I mirror my mail stream against the possibility of outages.)
Pobox was already worth the (roughly) dollar a month I pay for a permanent address, but this makes it even more worthwhile.
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I am getting so tired of viagra offers, and p*** enlargement offers (Hey y'all I'm a gal!!!) and letters from royalty who are offering me money if I would only give them my banking info (one intrepid lass even offered me her hand in marriage if I didn't want her money alone!)
Then there is the spam on my blog. A couple have started apologizing for their links as if that made a difference.
Okay, sorry for the rant!!!! I've just deleted yuck from my blog and was filling a mite perturbed!!!
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I've seen very little comment-spam so far, though I suppose it's only a matter of time. My LJ isn't indexed on Google, which might help.
Okay, sorry for the rant!!!!
I don't see it as a rant; I see it as comiseration. No need to apologize.