What to do about SPAM

Been using IHATESPAM, but they still come

[Compworld]

I have been using IHATESPAM for about a year, and I do not see any let up on the amount of SPAM we receive daily. Currently, we receive well over 100 SPAM messages per day. Is there anything we can do to let up on atleast some of this SPAM?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

CompWorld

[sem4u]

My IT department have a Bayern filter (I think). It wouldn't even let through some opt-in HTML newsletters through so they had to be added to a white list. The filter must be pretty strong.

[Mardi_Gras]

I'm using InBoxer with Outlook (don't know if it works with other programs). I rarely get spam messages in my InBox anymore, and false positives are very low. I never bother to look in the "blocked" folder (most obvious spam), but I do check the "review" folder occasionally to make sure nothing I wanted got caught.

I've been very happy with it.

[bill]

My new favorite is SpamBayes...I trained it a little and it just plain works. It has never classified any real mail as spam, and the longer I use it the smarter it gets. Although my spam volume has increased the amount of time I spend dealing with it has measurably decreased.

[ogletree]

We just switched to Postini. They were mentioned in a infoworld article. We were using MailMarshal. Every sense Net IQ bought them it has sucked. They hardly ever update it and it just sometimes does not work. Postini is quite cheap compared to some others. It has been great.

[Compworld]

Thanks guys for the replies. I have signed up for their trial yesterday, just waiting for the download link.

CompWorld

[hanuman]

Hi

I am Using AntiSpam and AntiVirus Skylabs from messagelabs. [messagelabs.com...] and it is great!

[txbakers]

I use I Hate Spam and it seems to work. Yes stuff still gets through, but to paraphrase Nike: Just Deal With It.

And go read Who Moved My Cheese.

We just have to deal with it the best we can. People still want to sell their stuff and email is a good way to reach millions at low cost.

[jetboy_70]

Got to agree with Bill on this. Spambayes is open source, and available as either a server implementation or a plugin for Outlook. I've been running the latter for under a week and its accuracy is very impressive.

Can be downloaded from:
[spambayes.sourceforge.net...]
(non-commercial link)

[jim_w]

I have found that the only way to NOT get SPAM is to not display your email address to anyone that you don’t know or who is not a business contact, etc. and make sure that your ‘real’ email addresses can be change at anytime without getting a bunch of bounces. Since I started doing this about 8 months ago, I get zero SPAM on 11 different addresses. My one Yahoo email address, get some because it is the email address I give in the contact information for our domain name.

[Compworld]

Unfortunately, when running an ecommerce site, you have to give several different e-mail addresses that can hurt your business if you just rename it. It’s just amazing on how much garbage is sent to our e-mail addresses. IHATESPAM sometimes get most of them, but not all. IT also classifies the ones that we use for our other sales on shopping sites like ebay, intershopzone, and Amazon.

I just do not know how these spammers make any money when everyone deletes their messages. They say if the financial gain is taken out of the equation, then they would stop. Well, if everyone is deleting them, how do they make money?

CompWorld

[sem4u]

>I just do not know how these spammers make any money when everyone deletes their messages. They say if the financial gain is taken out of the equation, then they would stop. Well, if everyone is deleting them, how do they make money?

The sad thing is that they must be making money. If only 0.01% of people buy and a couple of million messages are being sent out then a profit is probably made.

[jim_w]

Compworld

>>Unfortunately, when running an ecommerce site, you have to give several different e-mail addresses that can hurt your business if you just rename it.<<

I do run an ecommerce site. Think form mail, (NOT formmail). We have a form, and even the return address on the conformation mail sent for information is bogus. It informs the end user why it is bogus, and they always understand. If they order a produce, then they get the real support and customer service email addresses. Same with our newsletter. And believe it or not, I have had people sign up for the newsletter and 2 minutes or less later unsubscribe without even going to another web page on our site. We feel that these were people that were going to solicit us for their products by getting an email address from the newsletter conformation email that state will be sent when they subscribe.