I use SpamCop. It's $30 per year and handles spam two ways. First, it builds its own blocking lists from spam being reported by users. This removed about 90% of the spam from my email. Recently they have added SpamAssassin onto the service which you can configure yourself. I have set a relatively low threshold and stopped 100% of the spam from getting to my inbox. No good mail was ever caught. I can easily get 100 spam messages a day due to my names (michael and lewis) being so common and easily plastered in name-based dictionary attacks.
SpamCop also has some other filter options you can set based on various blacklists that are kept by several services. To set it up, you need two email accounts. One is the account your email comes to. This you forward to your spamcop address. The second is a secret address you never give out which preferably is a randomized name no spammer will likely guess (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Your spamcop address forwards cleared email to it. You receive the mail as if spamcop wasn't even in the picture; and you log into spamcop whenever you want to clear out your held mail and report caught spam. (It has a setting to send you held mail reports and more.) Recently I've started getting spam mail again which is somehow slipping past SpamCop and SpamAssassin. I'll probably forward some to SpamAssassin so they can analyze them and see what's up, but otherwise I'm completely happy with the service. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
