Anybody using Spamnet ?
Sunday, April 20, 2003 by c242 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Is anybody using this ? http://www.cloudmark.com/
Looks like a clever idea, just not sure if it is bad perhaps (You cann call me paranoid...)
Any Cons ?
Looks like a clever idea, just not sure if it is bad perhaps (You cann call me paranoid...)
Any Cons ?
c242
Reply #2 Monday, April 21, 2003 2:13 AM
Reply #2 Monday, April 21, 2003 2:13 AM
Hmmm, I have web-access to my e-mail, so I can delete it before it arrives on my comp. I wanted to do it in some easier way... 
bakerstreet
Reply #3 Monday, April 21, 2003 2:51 AM
Reply #3 Monday, April 21, 2003 2:51 AM
If you can get one to work without trashing legit email, let me know. I'm too sceered to risk it. People get agitated when they are waiting on a payment or an item and the email bounces.
c242
Reply #4 Monday, April 21, 2003 3:58 AM
Reply #4 Monday, April 21, 2003 3:58 AM
AFAIK Spamnet doesn't delete the mails but saves them in a spam folder it creates in Outlook. So You still have a chance to get them back. I am so bored of creating new filters when new spam arrives.
Hell Dragon
Reply #5 Monday, April 21, 2003 9:16 AM
Reply #5 Monday, April 21, 2003 9:16 AM
I use MailWasher Pro www.mailwasher.net and find it really quite good (most of the time).
Hell Dragon
Reply #6 Monday, April 21, 2003 9:17 AM
Reply #6 Monday, April 21, 2003 9:17 AM
Sorry, the link wasn't active, here it is: again http://www.mailwasher.net
Stregone
Reply #7 Monday, April 21, 2003 12:34 PM
Reply #7 Monday, April 21, 2003 12:34 PM
Try a recent version of mozilla. It has bayesian spam filtering built in, and it works pretty good. Just gotta train it first by marking some spam as spam, after that it does it automaticaly.
Gaharay
Reply #8 Monday, April 21, 2003 12:54 PM
Reply #8 Monday, April 21, 2003 12:54 PM
Yep. Been using it for months and I love it. It works. I love the whole idea behind it - people helping others out with spam.
I also like the way it only MOVES messages - you can keep an eye on it so it behaves itself.
Only bad thing is that its Outlook only, but I'm Outlok only too.
I also like the way it only MOVES messages - you can keep an eye on it so it behaves itself.
Only bad thing is that its Outlook only, but I'm Outlok only too.
pixElated
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:11 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:11 AM
I've been using Spamnet for a couple of months and highly recommend it.
It works exactly the way it should. It's free.
All of your email still comes in to your inbox, but then spamnet moves the spam messages to a spam folder. You can watch them disappearing from the inbox. If you want to read them, you just click on the spam folder, and there they are. If you get a spam message that doesn't get picked up by spamnet, you just highlight it, and then click on the 'block' button, and it gets sent to the spam folder. It also gets added to the spamnet database.
Very cool. No worries. It's perfect.
Get it at www.cloudmark.com
It works exactly the way it should. It's free.
All of your email still comes in to your inbox, but then spamnet moves the spam messages to a spam folder. You can watch them disappearing from the inbox. If you want to read them, you just click on the spam folder, and there they are. If you get a spam message that doesn't get picked up by spamnet, you just highlight it, and then click on the 'block' button, and it gets sent to the spam folder. It also gets added to the spamnet database.
Very cool. No worries. It's perfect.
Get it at www.cloudmark.com
bakerstreet
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:58 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:58 AM
But once you have downloaded the spam from the server, doesn't this verify to the spammer it is a valid email address? I was hoping it would bounce the email like mailwasher does.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:02 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:02 AM
I prefer Mailwasher. Once you've bounced a spammer a few times they go away. Just deleting the spam doesn't stop it being sent.
My ISP is supposed to intercept incoming spam
...who knows what they are stopping 
My ISP is supposed to intercept incoming spam
...who knows what they are stopping 
c242
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:53 AM
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:53 AM
But when the mail has arrived at my ISP, it is received nevertheless ? Or am I seeing that wrong ? So what does mailwasher do in that case ?
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Reply #1 Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:42 PM
Just about every time I got an email that had a return addy like "yourname87654@yahoo_com" with a subject line with 'sale' or 'auction' in it, it marked it as spam. I dunno how many I lost before I started manually deleting spam.
Mailwasher is what I use now. It lets you peruse the email before you download it, and delete and bounce them if you decide they are spam: http://www.mailwasher.net/