Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 5:59:50 PM, malexander wrote: malexander> And I can second that. It's worth the money for the First malexander> Alert system alone where thousands of users are reporting malexander> spam back to a central server. The upshot is that most of malexander> the spam I get is already marked "Known Spam" and deleted malexander> before it even gets to the Bat. Using Mailwasher, hardly malexander> any spam at all gets through and most of it is marked malexander> deletion when it arrives in Mailwasher. It's much more malexander> effective, as far as I'm concerned, than filtering using malexander> the Bat.
Bellsouth is my ISP and I use their mail servers and their MailGard option. So far it has caught almost all of the spam that shows up in my mailbox. Maybe one a day gets through. Out of 350 spam messages in three days only one made it to TheBat!, knock on wood (as he raps himself beside the head with his knuckles). The rest were dealt with on the server by MailGard where I have the option of viewing them to make sure none were really "ham" or letting the process delete them automatically. I have no idea what MailGard is, but it works. I tried BayesFilters and BayesIt out of curiosity for a while, but they were much more work and no better than the filter provided by Bellsouth. -- Regards, Plan9 Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: "Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ". The second string says: "Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated". ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
