As someone tired of receiving hundreds of pieces of Spam per day, I was overjoyed to find www.123mail.net . This is a great (albeit paid) alternative to Yahoo or Hotmail and for $24 per year you get a POP3/Webmail account with 15MB storage with no spam or advertising.
Their filterng method is based on an incrementing point system which includes: Bayesian Classification , white-listing, Heuristics , Automatic Fingerprinting (DCC), Black-lists (known spammer, IP blocks, experiential), and user White-lists.
A combination system is much better than a single method IMHO and I have seen the results first hand. I have yet to have a false positive and they have done all the Bayes training already. They have a handy web-based interface for reporting false-positives and re-delivering the mail if it makes any mistakes.
123Mail is actually owned by The Electric Mail Company www.electricmail.com and this same spam filtering solution is also deployed in Fortune 1000 firms.
Ok this wasn't meant to sound like a plug, Bayes has just made me a believer.
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As someone tired of receiving hundreds of pieces of Spam per day, I was overjoyed to find www.123mail.net . This is a great (albeit paid) alternative to Yahoo or Hotmail and for $24 per year you get a POP3/Webmail account with 15MB storage with no spam or advertising. Their filterng method is based on an incrementing point system which includes: Bayesian Classification , white-listing, Heuristics , Automatic Fingerprinting (DCC), Black-lists (known spammer, IP blocks, experiential), and user White-lists. A combination system is much better than a single method IMHO and I have seen the results first hand. I have yet to have a false positive and they have done all the Bayes training already. They have a handy web-based interface for reporting false-positives and re-delivering the mail if it makes any mistakes. 123Mail is actually owned by The Electric Mail Company www.electricmail.com and this same spam filtering solution is also deployed in Fortune 1000 firms. Ok this wasn't meant to sound like a plug, Bayes has just made me a believer.