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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yeah, spammers suck! I've had the same email address for almost 20 years now and I have it pretty well handled by using a local spam managing client. But when I use a different computer or method (such as webmail or Xoom or Droid) to access the mail server I get all that friggin' spam.
Spammers SUCK!
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And that's one reason I use GMail as my primary email account. It polls the others, so all mail appears in my GMail Inbox. (It's also set so that replies appear to come from the account the email was sent to, so it's not obvious GMail was in the mix.)
GMail has the best spam filters I've seen. It's Bayesian filtering, but the spam database it classifies against is built from
every GMail users "Report spam" clicks. Essentially, I'll see a new spam
once. It's also very good about false positives. I see very few. (Ironically, the most fertile source of them for a while was mail sent out from a mailing list devoted to a good open source spam filtering tool.
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I know folks who forward all mail through GMail to clean it before they get it.
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Dennis