antispam software?

[julian]

Just wondering what those of you who get spam use to filter it out?

I know not evreyone gets it, and some probbaly have work addresses that are filtered anyway. Im also not interested in advice on where to put or not put my email address about - simply what filtering software you use.

Bayesian filters have been made ineffective by the new breed of image spam. Currently i use a combination of bayesian filtering (for text) and a simple image filter rule, but its not ideal. Ive been reading on OCR analysis, and then sybsequentb bayesian analysis, but all the solutions seem to be *nix based, and i dont hugely want the bother of running my own mail server if i can help it.

My client is outlook (not express)

Any comments / suggestions?

Julian

[Spandex]

I'd suggest moving from Outlook to Thunderbird which has a decent spamfilter built in. The recent "image spam" stuff is fooling it a little.. but it's mainly on top of it. I use it at home.

At work, I use TheBat (some weird but good email client) and spambayes as my filter. I've not trained it for months and so it's got really shit. I'm seriously considering going Thunderbird here at work too.. despite the fact that it'll prolly take me a couple of hours to get everything across, configured and working.

The advantage of the Thunderbird approach is that the "Junk/Unjunk" button is right there in your mail reader.. so the act of sorting the misses or false positives (very rare) trains your filter.

[joe pinapples]

i love spam. its the only reason I've kept hotmail for my email for years. i got a good one recently:

Re - Imminent Payment Of $1,300,000.00USD Only With Gaurantee

Good Day,

I am jekins williams, Head of foreign payment department I have
been mandated to inform you about the recent development as
in payment this money after our board meeting, your case was
mentioned and we have agreed to pay you without any further
delay so i would required you to desist from any partner who
may have been asking you to not receive your fund.
The Federal Government has mandated the payment commission
that all payment that has been overdue and those owed by the
government would be paid unilaterilly to the tune of $5m
(Five Million U.S Dollars Only) Therefore all we will pay
you now is the $5m and the rest afterwards.

I would like you to employ transparency and honesty in this
regards because aiding and abetting will only keep your
payment pending so I will like you to confirm the following
to avoid any mistake or wrong transfer. The total fund
belonging to you etc, the requested information is to ensure
that no mistake or error is made and it should be forwarded
in the manner stated below:

Your Full Name:
Your Complete Address:
Direct Telephone Number:
Mobile Number:
Fax Number:

who would be insane enough to answer this terribly written incomprehensible bunch of shite chat? it must be only the mentally insane

[Jeniffer Mills]

Your Full Name:
Your Complete Address:
Direct Telephone Number:
Mobile Number:
Fax Number:

who would be insane enough to answer this terribly written incomprehensible bunch of shite chat? it must be only the mentally insane

I can insure you there ARE people who answer that shit...otherwise there would`nt be spammers around....

[Yer_Maw]

why dont you do some scambaiting joe?

http://www.419eater.com/

http://www.419eater.com/images/olu_martins1.jpg

[vnaut]

Spam sieve is quite good on OSX. Takes a while to train it but its retty nifty,

[decadnids]

the spam filter on mail on osx is ok, seems to capture most spam when trained.