hi, I know that this is off topic but I think it was this list that was discussing spam about a month ago. I downloaded a program called spamkiller at http://www.spamkiller.com I really like it. you can try it free for 30 days and after that it is a none time fee of 29.95 to register it. I did decide to register it. I have had the same e-mail address for a long time and I didn't want to change it. My email address is out there on too many message boards. It stops the spam before it gets to your inbox. If you decide to give it a try though you need to watch the killed mail for about a month because I found a few things were being sent to my 'killed mail' box that wern't supposed to go there but it is easy to fix by adding the address as a 'friend'. I just thought I would mention this as I know many of us genealogists have our e-mail adresses posted online and this does generate a lot of unwanted mail. Mary
Excellent suggestions ... I will definitely check out www.spamkiller.com . I, too, have a long time email address that I have used for about a decade now (surviving many different ISP's that I have used). It's a "logical" email address that costs $7/year (for 3 addresses) from POBOX and they do also a good degree of "tunable" spam filtering as well. That's one thing to check out - www.pobox.com The other "Spam" related item that I have signed on for lately is www.spamcop.net service. I don't just filter away a good deal of spam, I report pretty much all that gets through. I think it's important to keep our mailbox's clean, via good filtering software, but I would also like to do my part to contribute to the policing and shutting down of some of these spam companies out there. There are also a lot of unsuspecting people that have left their 'servers' open for the abuse of these spamming companies, and spamcop.net does a good job of identifying these and letting the owners know. One more idea for people to look into. Regards, WD "Bill" Silverthorn California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Kocak" <Mary_K@centurytel.net> To: <OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: [OHLORAIN] Spam > hi, > I know that this is off topic but I think it was this list that was > discussing spam about a month ago. I downloaded a program called spamkiller > at http://www.spamkiller.com I really like it. you can try it free for 30 > days and after that it is a none time fee of 29.95 to register it. I did > decide to register it. I have had the same e-mail address for a long time > and I didn't want to change it. My email address is out there on too many > message boards. > It stops the spam before it gets to your inbox. If you decide to give it a > try though you need to watch the killed mail for about a month because I > found a few things were being sent to my 'killed mail' box that wern't > supposed to go there but it is easy to fix by adding the address as a > 'friend'. > I just thought I would mention this as I know many of us genealogists have > our e-mail adresses posted online and this does generate a lot of unwanted > mail. > Mary > > ______________________________