MailWasher is a nifty little program, but it's not automatic. That's why I use Spamcop. The stuff goes into my spam trap and then I go through a couple times a day (because I do get that much spam!) and report all the spam and forward on the legitimate mail (which is just a tiny percentage of the volume in the spam trap). The spam all gets reported to the originating ISP and to Spamcop's databases.

I've seen people bitch about Spamcop before (and the spammers really, REALLY hate them for obvious reasons). The problem is not with Spamcop, who just collect data about IP address that are sending spam (and by the way, I went and looked it up, and an IP address only stays in the database for 3 days; it remains there ONLY until there are no more complaints against that IP address). The problem is with the ISPs who implement the filtering without allowing users to view what's being rejected or be given a chance to add it to a "pass filter" list.

bonni

Message edited on: 09/11/2004 21:51

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