Re: OT: Spam Blocker

Does anyone know of a good (preferably free) spam blocker?

Follow-up on my earlier suggestions: After seeing Norton Anti-Virus allow others' machines to be infected with viruses, worms, and every other goddam thing floating around out there, I decided to get rid of it on my machines. I went with Trend Micro's PC-Cillin Internet Security, which has anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam features. (Mini-review: With the current rebate, it's $25. It scans much faster than NAV, updates much faster than NAV, and hogs much less system resources than NAV. So far, so good on the actual bad-thing-prevention part. I give it a big three thumbs up.)

It will tag incoming e-mails that it thinks are spam with the word "spam:" added to the beginning of the subject line. Then, using Thunderbird's message filters, you can have any message with spam: in the subject line sent immediately to the junk folder, or even immediately deleted, if you like. I have mine set up to send it to the junk folder, and the junk folder gets deleted every three days, automatically.

There are a lot of things you can do to make spam a non-problem, without "challenging" the sender. Life's too short to spend time and energy "challenging" spammers.
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