On 31/03/2008 Sam McCandless wrote: > And please feel free to suggest what we might do to help make it less > of a problem.
Most ISP's offer spam filtering, usually based on Spamassassin or similar, and that works well. Sometimes free, sometimes an additional low cost. Always worth asking because quite often they don't bother to tell users it's available. If not, an easy (but not free) way is to run all your incoming mail through a spam interception service http://www.emailfiltering.co.uk/ Or you can run software locally on your home machine. http://www.spamcop.com lists and compares several (Mailwasher, Spamcatcher, etc) The problem with any of these is that any anti-spam takes a certain amount of time and trouble to keep filters up to date, and maintain black and white lists. Another possibility is to set up a Gmail or Yahoo account purely for lists and anywhere you think might lots of spam. They include filtering. Hotmail do too, but it's deranged and it frequently causes insoluble problems preventing legitimate mail getting through. Hotmail filtering is 2-stage, a user-controllable bit which is fine, and a system-wide bit nobody can control, disposing of incoming mail silently. Hotmail is unsupported on this list and many others because of this; you can use it of you want (many people do), but if you have problems my response will be limited to 'I told you so':) -- Regards Tony Sleep http://tonysleep.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
