Chris Adams wrote:

> The missing link as far as I can tell is simply mail client support. We
> really need trivial mechanisms for reporting spam and managing one's
> antispam system(s). I can think of a couple examples that look very
> promising:
[snip]
> Cloudmark's system looks very interesting but I haven't tested it
> personally.

In case it's of interest, I've been testing Cloudmark's SpamNet for a few
months now. It's a neat system, in that it's based on a peer-to-peer
network -- the guy who dreamed it up is one of the founders of Napster.

The upside is that it really does filter out a lot of spam. You are part of
a large network of other users (87,000+ as of today) who are collectively
identifying and filtering spam. This means that you don't have to go through
a repetitive and laborious process of creating your own filters.

The downside is that SpamNet has a high rate of "false positives." You might
be *very* surprised at the list of email newsletters that got automatically
sent to my Spam folder. I wrote an article about my results (includes a list
of the newsletters that got filtered out), which you can read at:

http://www.imakenews.com/emailresults/e_article000084040.cfm

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Al Bredenberg
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