Re: !MailScout and Orpheus

On 11 Jul, druck wrote in message
<a88ba9444e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On 10 Jul 2006 Steve Fryatt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To be honest, I don't buy the 'time online' argument. I thought that
I was bad, downloading in the region of 100 genuine emails a day.
Even on 33k3 dialup -- as I was until a couple of months ago -- I
would still have been hard pushed to log on with TapirMail and weed
out the uninteresting bits in the time it took POPstar to fetch them
for Messenger to filter and score.

Spam hasn't just got more numerous, its also got larger too as many
messages aren't just text but contain pictures advertising pills and god
knows what. Looking at my spam bin they are between 26K and 60K and I
get on average 115 a day - that would be 20 minutes to download if I was
still on dialup.

But... unless I've been mis-reading the OP's posts, we aren't talking
about just spam, but also legitimate emails. The reason given for not
using AntiSpam wasn't that it couldn't delete spam, but that it wasn't
possible to check legitimate emails (from mailing lists) and prune
unwanted threads, 'killfile' posters, and so on before letting POPstar
download the rest.

I have no problem deleting spam on the server, but can't see how using
TapirMail to manually remove subthreads from mailing lists while online is
any better than downloading the mail and using Messenger or Pluto's
threading and scoring rules to do it offline.

Having broadband and good filtering software at home is great, but
doesn't help if I log on to my mailbox from abroad. If I'm away for a
week I can expect to have around 1000 spams, and even if I only download
the headers and select genuine messages for full download, thats 2MB
worth of data which isn't fun at between £10 and £25 per MB GPRS rates.

Indeed. A lot of my spam now ends up in a Hotmail account, which I log
into occasionally to see if any genuine mails have slipped through
(unlikely). I tend to average about 10-20 spam messages a day in my POP3
mailbox, which is still bearable to download and filter with SpamStamp.

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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