Peter MacIsaac wrote: > Elizabeth, > > Thanks > > Spamarrest uses the greylisting model of rejecting unknown senders, however > it does so by emailing the sender (not via using lower level reject/error > messages aimed at achieving an automatic response) and asking them to > effectively register to send you mail using an "image password". > > It does defend against the common error cited in the reference of rejecting > valid mail, by holding this in a non-validated box on the spam arrest > webmail, allowing me to go in once a week or more often and quickly scan for > important mail by using the - name and subject. If you come across mail eg > from a list that cant register you can register for it. > > This has made an enormous difference to my quality of life as around40% of > mail I get (spam arrest tracks the stats) is spam and I don’t have to deal > with it.
Peter, I notice that you are using Microsoft Outlook as your email client. Can I suggest that you try Spambayes? Is is a semi-Bayesian spam filter, written in Python, and available as a plug-in for Outlook, all free and open source of course. You do need to train it initially but that doesn't take long, but in very little time it becomes spectacularly good at distinguishing spam from ham (much better than the bayesian spam filter built into Mozilla Thunderbird, BTW), but without the downsides of greylists (which as has been noted just makes your spam other people's problem, which is great for you but which doesn't really help in the big scheme of things). See http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/index.html Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
