Bob W wrote: > you might to think about installing a spam filter in your mail client. > These use a technique called Bayesian probability to work out > from the contents whether or not a message is spam. You can > set actions to invoke according to the probability of the > message being spam, most notably: Delete. > http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html > > I use The Bat! mail client with its own Bayesian filter and > it has been very accurate at identifying spam. So far it has > had no false positives and I now see no more than about 3 > spams per day - a massive improvement.
In addition to the filter by Waitrose (!), I use Norton Internet Security 2004, which also incorporates a Spam filter. I have to say I am hugely unimpressed by this as it seems to have it own censorship issues. I currently run Windows XP Pro, but I don't know for how much longer and will think again (I am not far off having all the cash for a Mac laptop anyway now) how I protect a different OS - probably Red Hat Linux. This is not because I don't like Windows as such, if it hadn't been for W3.1 on, I wouldn't have really been interested in returning to having a computer and XP has been an utterly reliable system for me. I'm just a little tired of all these viruses being directed mainly at Windows systems, so if I no longer run one (although I will still need and use anti-virus and Spam filtering) it shouldn't cause me so much alarm. Malcolm
