http://www.bloomba.com/ & their anti SPAM program

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Here's an interesting anti-spam device that works.

You have to be getting your email through a POP
connection with your ISProvider. if you use
Web based email like yahoo or hotmail, this
device does not apply.

What it is is your POP mail before coming to
your INBOX goes to a proxy where it is examined
automatically by software called Spam Assassin
POP3 Proxy.

this is FREE (the price is right!). it was
recommended by Consumers Reports magazine
in an article about spam. you have to configure
your email application following their directions
but it is quite easy. you put in their IP address
in the mail server configuration and you specify
a filter that automatically discards any message
with *****SPAM***** in the Subject line.

If their software which actually reads the
message of the email identifies it as spam,
it sends it on adding *****SPAM***** to the
subject line. Sooooo, with your filter in
place, these spams are dumped.

How good does it work? It seems to identify
around 60% of the spam as spam. The 40% of
spam unidentified by their current algorithms
arrives in your INBOX and you have to them
delete by hand.

As i foolishly posted to Usenet groups for
years passed using my true email address,
i get a fantastic amount of spam, hundreds
a day.

check it out at http://www.bloomba.com

Mike