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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
     

    Especially for Spode, the Inquirer has reported that Egham is the spam capital of the UK.

    The number of spam spam spam spam eggs and spam emails has, amazingly, been going down for me recently (only 3 today) and I honestly can't remember the last time that Gmail's spam filter either missed a spam or declared a false positive. On the other hand, Outlook and Thunderbird fail miserably at filtering out spam efficiently, which only goes to support theories that Google is run by gnomes who read your email...

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
     

    I saw that - and left a comment on the Inquirer yesterday. I said "maybe that would explain why my NTL performance was so poor".

    Gmail Spam Filter can be a little over-zealous sometimes, but generally speaking - I LOVE the lack of spam.

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
     

    Forum spam is soaring at a forum I frequent. I have been made a mod there to help fight the spam. I hope it will go down once we get vbulletin upgraded. I started researching spammers and found an interesting note on spammers getting paid $150 USD per confirmed forum post recently. :o

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      CommentAuthorcoyote
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2008
     

    I don't suppose any of you use Outlook express or outlook. I've found a great anti spam system that uses a world wide community to stop spam, fishing and unrequested emails. Spamfighters sounds a bit on the corny side, but it does work, it's around $35 a year for membership. Cloudmark is the company that organises it.

    It rarely slips up and if it does the system will put the possible offending mail in the spam folder, these are mails from companies I actually want and just need to unblock them in a toolbar. I have not had any junk in my inbox for over a year! My G mail gets aroud 35 junk mails a day. :( I think it's well worth the money.

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
     

    Gmail has been working for me and I use the IMAP services to bring it into Thunderbird sometimes. I need to get Evolution mail up and running. I think it supports IMAP.

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