Spam

11 July 2003

Now several weeks old, Stephen Manes’s article for Forbes called Kill Spam With Your Own Two Hands provides some insight into the many techniques that people have used to combat spam.

When I installed Outlook 2003 (Beta 2) and converted my *.pst file, the process automatically discovered that I was using the (Outlook version) of SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin from Deersoft was bought by Network Associates and is to be sold as McAfee Security or some such notion. I haven’t checked into it. I’m not a big fan of Network Associates.

However, there is also supposed to be some form of spam fighter in Outlook 2003. At conversion I had two ”junk mail” folders. I simply ”merged” those two, so that now when I find something in my junk folder, I can’t be certain whether SpamAssassin or Outlook 2003 moved it there. I don’t care.

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