[TowerTalk] Raunchy pics

[Gary Smith]

I have a couple domains and the commercial spam filter was snagging 
good emails and they were unavailable to me. Asking around I learned 
of spambayes, an open source spam filter you train to understand what 
you think is spam. It is free from here: 
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ 

It is similar to artificial intelligence in that it comes brain dead 
and you have to tell it what you see each piece of email as. Your 
answer will add a "X-header" designator and based on that designator 
your email program will filter with it what you wish.

It takes only a few days of training to be 99.9% correct and it uses 
all of the information in the raw data to make its evaluation. Once 
its trained you leave the training mode and then make corrections on 
a rare per-case basis. The advantage is you can (wisely) choose to 
keep the rejected emails for your final perusal & then delete & this 
way you never lose an email but don't have to see spam in your face 
either.

I told my ISP to turn off the filtering and I easily get 100 SPAM a 
day but only see 1-2 every month out of that. Some emails form forum 
posts like this will be mis-identified 1-2 times a month also but 
that's why you keep & use a spam filter so you can salvage the good 
emails and then train spambayes that it was a good email.

Lastly, I have been using Pegasus for email since 1995, which is free 
and specifically designed to not let trojans & viri into your 
computer. http://www.pmail.com/ there is a bit of a learning curve to 
it but I wouldn't trade it for any other emailer. I have 5 different 
email accounts and each of them forwards to Pegasus and everything 
gets filtered as I like into the folder of my choice. Some things I 
want to see and when I shut down Pegasus, then those emails go into 
their respective folders. Very tidy.

Between Spambayes and Pegasus I never worry about viruses from email 
or crap like the "raunchy pics", they all get discovered and routed 
to the spam folder And both programs are free.

73,

Gary
KA1J

 

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