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...recommend SpamKiller. It's much more extensive, if more expensive ($30 after a 30-day trial, vs. $15 for Spam Buster). One caveat: neither program will work with Web-based Yahoo or Hotmail. However, both services will let you set up a regular POP mail account for a fee. It's worth it. SpamKiller even filtered out my Australian pal. Next time, cutie, use a dictionary...
Questions? E-mail Chris at cdt@well.com Please, no spam...
...filters in Eudora, a popular industrial-strength e-mail program, let you block mail by addresses or subject lines. This quickly turned into an entertaining game of cat and mouse. I blocked the address of anyone who sent me spam, only to find that most spammers change their addresses every time. So I focused on the subject line, telling Eudora to zap any mail that mentioned miracle diets, making money at home, refilling ink-jet printers or securing cut-rate Viagra...
Trouble is, those dastardly spammers are putting their ads in ever more innocent-seeming packets, like the one from my Australian friend. If every spam looked like that, I figured, I would lose the war. Already, the complexity of my filter list--with 300 entries--was making Eudora run like a tortoise...
Clearly it was time to bring out the big guns. The two leading software tools are Spam Buster contactplus.com/spam and SpamKiller spamkiller.com) Both tap quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases. This is what my Eudora filters would have looked like had I played cat and mouse for a few more centuries...