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From: Laurie <>
Subject: RE: [Bygones] Good Spam Solution
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:21:47 -0600
References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030906205113.02630ac0@knowspam.net>
In-Reply-To: <000001c37526$5de3e7d0$caca7ad5@yourfa796nipvi>


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I have to agree with you, Jean, on the problems with mail lists (not
just rootsweb). When my ISP started using a SPAM killing service,
I had all kinds of problems with not receiving mail list messages.
When they bounced, I was simply taken off the list & had to keep
signing up again--IF I found out I had been bounced. I spoke to my
ISP tech support people about this several times and finally
switched to my current service after the problem continued for
several months. I don't know how many important messages
from individuals I might have lost because of these controls. I
could have missed just the message I needed to make a
connection. Luckily with mail lists I can read the archives, but
it sure was a time-consuming hassle to keep having to do that.

Laurie

At 10:56 AM 9/7/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>As administrator for several Rootsweb mailing lists, some of them very busy,
>I have to say that anti-spam solutions involving the construction of any
>sort of white list are a complete no go area as far as I am concerned. They
>cause endless problems for my subscribers who frequently write to me asking
>why they are no longer receiving their list mail. A far better solution, in
>my opinion, is the free program Mailwasher. Search for it in Google. You can
>train and configure mailwasher to your own specification, and preview all of
>your email BEFORE downloading it from the server. It also shows emails
>carrying attachments which is useful to combat against virus threats.
>An excellent, no hassles, little program where you retain control over your
>email.
>
>Jean Morgan
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Adair [mailto:]
> > Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2003 1:19 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [Bygones] Good Spam Solution
> >
> > This is off subject for this list, but since I have been very
> > pleased recently with a spam blocking solution, I wanted to
> > share this information with my friends on this list.
> >
> > As a genealogist, we often post messages on this and other
> > genealogical mailing lists. Unfortunately, our email
> > addresses can then be "harvested," or collected, by robots
> > that search such mailing lists for email addresses to send
> > spam to. That results in most of us genealogists getting a
> > lot of "spam" emails.
> >
> > I've tried several solutions over the last year to deal with
> > spam, and the only type that I've found real effective are
> > the services that do the following (which have been spoken of
> > lately in the "plus"/fee edition of

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