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I've sampled it for a bit now, has some problems with some firewalls, but works pretty well for me so far.

Spammunition http://www.upserve.com/spammunition/

At work I have Outlook always running with the excellent bayesian FREE filter Spammunition www.upserve.com. I also do check the mailbox from home over a dial-up connection.

If I wouldn't use Spammunition, then I would spend a lot of time downloading spam messages; as it is right now, I get just the ham (several messages instead of many).

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they should filter their email better and stop having their children sign up for the sex mailing list in the first place.

This is not how spam works. You're operating from the assumption that only people who ask for spam get it. The best spam filter in the world, based on solid research, still needs to be retrained fairly often because of the spammers ability to circumvent spam filters.

Spam is not free speech - its harassment hiding behind free speech and its costing everyone plenty of real dollars. Legistlation is required because its apparent only the threat of jail time will incite these miscreants to play nice. Civil suites are nice, but it alows the spammer to continue for years while the case is resolved.

take care of spam yourself with a good filter, deal with it the same as you do your mail box with postal mail

Dunno. The last update seems to have been on 3/26/2003 according to the web site Spammunition. I'm not sure why you think it's not being maintained...

Spammunition. It's free.

how about filtering the mail client side?

For outlook users, i recommend Spammunition and I just use mozilla's spam filtering, which works great.

Yes, this is the new Bad Thing going around. Spammers have figured out that there are some really smart filters out there. I have no experience with Spamassassin. I've been using Spammunition.

Lately, the image based spams are coming through. I have noticed one thing about them, they have absolutly no text, besides the subject. Usually, when someone sends you a funny picture, they have a comment, or even the text from the previous forwarded email (layers and layers of greater than symbols (>)). Spammunition not only uses "bad" words to block spam, it uses "good" words to keep from blocking non-spam. So the very presence of a word can prevent the email from being filtered. I'd say only about 10% of the image only spam emails are getting through by Spammunition because of this.

Maybe in the future, filters will incorporate OCR for emails like this. Then the spammers will make sure the text in the images confuse the OCR software. Or, they'll break the image into tiny pieces.

What a race. How fun.

Bayesian filters are definitely the way to go. They flat-out *work*. Other programs I've used just didn't perform, like Cloudmark Spamnet.

Bayesian filters work, period. If you are trying to find one that integrates into Microsoft Outlook, try Spammunition. Works like a charm for me. If we all used filters, the business model of spamming would change - it would be so much more expensive to reach an audience that the spammers would have to stop.

If you use MS Outlook (we are forced to at work), try out Spammunition. It's a free Bayesian spam filter that's integrated right into Outlook. Works really well. No spam problems any more. This bayesian approach really works.

I started using a filter called Spammunition a while ago. It's a free Bayesian filter for MS Outlook. (Not my ideal mail client but it's what we use at work). It's great. No false positives, and catches all my spam.

I noticed that there are a lack of MS Outlook-specific bayesian filtering programs out there. I've been using a Bayesian filter called Spammunition with great results. It integrates into Outlook, and it's free. Still a beta product though, so it's a little buggy. But the bayesian approach definitely works. I don't have to deal with spam any more!