I need a good email spam filter

ecchi · 2005-02-27, 06:58 PM

Cd34 - I was being simplistic rather than bore everyone by going into it too deep. Yeah, your friends or customers have to use a "forbidden" word more than spammers, but this is a bad thing, not a good one. Spammers know how these thing work, so work at beating them, your friends will just use the words blindly. For example "free" and "Viagra" are common words for them to count. A spammer will say something like "f-ree o'ffer with our vi@gr@ prescriptions". A friend may say "..but on the bright side it means I get free viagra from the health service". However clever your filter is, the "friend's message" is going to ring more alarms than the genuine spam.

chilihost - but that takes as long as deleting spam manually as it comes in.

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2005-02-27, 06:58 PM	#8
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Cd34 - I was being simplistic rather than bore everyone by going into it too deep. Yeah, your friends or customers have to use a "forbidden" word more than spammers, but this is a bad thing, not a good one. Spammers know how these thing work, so work at beating them, your friends will just use the words blindly. For example "free" and "Viagra" are common words for them to count. A spammer will say something like "f-ree o'ffer with our vi@gr@ prescriptions". A friend may say "..but on the bright side it means I get free viagra from the health service". However clever your filter is, the "friend's message" is going to ring more alarms than the genuine spam. chilihost - but that takes as long as deleting spam manually as it comes in.