Re: A2 in central Canada

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
news:bah6kk$1e965$1@hades.rz.uni-saarland.de...
> Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> >>All very good for some, but in a business-like environment
> >>such as I am, I need my address more accessible than
> >>" will e forty six pee ay at com cast dot net "
> >>No one would want to respond to me that way. I know
> >>I don't. Zero % spam is great, but then again, there is the
> >>" delete " button. Works just as well. ;-)
> >
> >
> > I get about 1 spam a day.  I use Spamnet to keep it away.  It's like the
> > napster of spam identification - a distributed network of people who
> > identify spam so anybody else in the group who gets it automatically has
it
> > deleted.  It used to be free (and still is for beta testers like me) but
> > they have just started to charge for it.  It might still be a good
> > investment. It's an outlook plugin.
>
> Or use e.g. Mozilla to read mail. The newer versions (1.3 and higher)
> have a very effective spam filter, I used to get up to 100 of them per
> day, now maybe 1 or so survives the filter, everything else is deflected
> to a "Junk" folder with pretty much never a false positive. You need to
> train it for a while (couple of 100 spams) though by telling it what is
> spam and what isn't, before it gets really reliable.
>
> Freely dowloadable from http://www.mozilla.org

I have resisted the idea of training software to pick out the mail I want,
because it seems to tedious (a couple of hundred spams?).  How long did it
take you?

Thanks
Tim