Anti-Spam Programs — Reader Comments

Reader Bev Lammert has written me about an alternative anti-spam program that she's picked:

Hi, I just read my newsletter of which I love but had to comment on your Anti Spam article. You mentioned MailWasherPopFile &IHateSpam. I haven\'t tried any of them but I do use one called Spam Bully and have used it a very long time. Really like it a lot and is easy to use and no slow down. I have it on my HP Desktop Windows Vista Home Premium using Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Linksey router. I found this through Cloudeight a long time ago. Have a good day.

Get more information and a free trial of Spam Bully

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Longtime reader Ron Spruell wrote about his experience with Gmail's spam filtering:

I don't know what Google does, but the Spam on this account has been almost zero.

He's right — Google's gmail.com does a great job of deleting spam. However, it's such a good job that I wonder what its false-positive (mistakenly labelling an email as spam, when it really wasn't) rate is.

I prefer spam-filtering systems that identify the email as suspected spam, but then still delive it to a folder so that I can confirm that the message isn't a good one.

My "Murphy's Law of Email" is:

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Readers Mary Palmer and Larry Jenkins wrote identical emails to suggest an alternative:

I use a good spam filter, and you probably do the same.
I have whitelisted you and that means that I will receive all the emails you send to me.
I would appreciate it if you would whitelist my email address: [email addess removed - Terry] in your spam filter.

If you don't have a spam filter, I can recommend SPAMfighter. It is a highly effective free spam filter for Outlook and Outlook Express.

You can get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/Pro

I hope that you will whitelist me, so we can continue to communicate safely via email in the future.

Best regards

Since these emails were identical, I suspect that they were automated by the SPAMfighter software. Either way, though, it counts as two readers using this software.

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