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6/29/04, 9:29 PM #1

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Been hearing adverstised on the radio for the past few days about a site called ethicalemail.com that is suppose to do for spam what the National Do Not Call list has done for telemarketers, which as been quite effective for me at least.

At any rate, when I went to the site they wanted my home address and e-mail address. Call me suspicious, but I can't see why they'd need my snail mail address so I declined the offer for now.

Has anybody signed up for the service? If so how is it working/is there anything "below board" with this service such as hidden fees, more stuff in the snail mail mailbox, etc, etc?

Todd O.

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6/29/04, 10:01 PM #2

Ted Shuck
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Ted Shuck

>There is a big difference IMHO between a do-not-call list and a do-not-spam list. You can trace back callers, but not spammers. Much of the spam you receive is re-routed to disguise its origin. Much comes from overseas where we cannot prosecute the perpetrants.

The way I see it, if you sign up for a do-not-spam list, you have just given your email address to the entire spamming community.

Ted

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6/29/04, 10:08 PM #3

Greg Sloop
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Greg Sloop

>If you really want to do in spam, find a provider who offers email with SpamAssassin filtering or use PopFile as a single machine solution.

I've personally setup SA (spam assassin) to filter numerous site wide installations and my hosting company uses it for my outside hosted sites.

I'm not sure if that was what you're looking for, but I deal with 200+ spam a day to my accounts on my primary domain. Only 3-5 a day make it past SA.

SpamAssassin, IMHO is probably the best spam filtering product bar none available for effective site wide use.

If you're willing to spend a bit of time and a bit more effort, then use PopFile

See: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Both are free in cost and the source is available for full review so they're free/open in spirit too.

Both can achieve better than 95% accuracy pretty easily.

Personally, I'd be wary of something like ethicalmail - even though I know nothing about them. I suspect it's a way that you "agree" to be spammed, but on a more narrow focus. IMHO, I can agree to be "spammed" more easily and don't need a service to help. I subscribe to several commercial email lists and really only want what I specifically ask for...

Cheers,

Greg

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6/29/04, 10:12 PM #4

Joel
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joel

>I just signed up to RedCondor.com which seems to work and is worth the money. SpamAssassin did a horrible job for me and while it could be the configuration I just didn't like it. RedCondor isn't free but it's worth the money.

However for both Spam Assassin and Red condor you need to have access to the server configuration files otherwise it won't work.

One advantage of RedCondor is that it filters the mail before sending it to you my servers don't waste their time doding the filtering. Better for performance.

(note I'm only a customer no affiliation etc)

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