rcjordan - 3:42 pm on Apr 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

>become standard business practise

A quick way to bring a legitimate business to its senses would be to report their errant/ignorant spam to a blacklist. After they spent a few man-days trying to get themselves off the lists they'd at least pause before launching another email marketing campaign.

>Mailwasher

I've been fine-tuning mailwasher for a few hours now. One of the big advantages I've seen is the ability to set up filters using regular expressions, which should reduce the processing time while increasing effectivesness -particularly when filtering the email body. Instead of writing 4 separate filters - you can pack them into one line:

The Body > contains reg expr > casino¦gamble¦gambling¦Vegas¦

Nice!

Also, you can customize the message and font color of the filter status, this lets you know which filter kicked it... not knowing which filter is a problem while you're customizing.