Cloudmark

[Joe]

For the past 2 days, I've been using a product called Cloudmark SpamNet ...

It's actually catching 75% of the SPAM I was getting on a daily basis.

When you see a message in your inbox, this Outlook - Outlook Express plugin gives you the option to block each mail, and it puts it in it's own folder (labeled SPAM). If they get enough complaints on the same type of message, the filters LEARN, and start blocking it for everyone.

Today alone, it's trapped, by itself, 170 messages - herbal ******, patches for anatomy enhancement, just plain JUNK.

the Outlook version is $3.99/month - the outlook Express version is free while it's in Beta.

This is definately something I'm going to be subscribing to.

http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/

Joe

[Joe]

From their site:

SpamNet is the first and largest group of people - more than half a million collaborating in real-time to fight spam. Because of its community based peer-to-peer filtering model, SpamNet keeps over 95 percent of spam out of your inbox automatically, so spam doesn't steal time from your day, or money from your wallet.

If a spam does slip through to your inbox, simply click the Block button to remove the message from your inbox and notify the entire SpamNet community immediately. This automatically helps stop that spam message from being sent to other members of the SpamNet community.

Similarly, if you think a certain message is not spam, you can click the Unblock button and share that intelligence with the network. SpamNet has a Truth Evaluation System (TeS) to guarantee that only valid spam messages are blocked. SpamNet never deletes an email; it is just moved to the "spam" folder so you never lose email you care about.

[Joe]

Total for the day - 293!

[muttdog]

Originally posted by Joe@Nov 9 2003, 01:10 AM
Total for the day - 293!
Cloudmark is 4/month now!??!!! geeeshhhh... That is quiet high considering what I get for cloudmark versus what i get for $5/month here at hostpc...


I found a cool new FREE spam solution that might interest us cheapos...

"Last year, software designer Paul Graham described a superior spam-blocking method based on the probability theorem of 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes. This technique uses observations of known outcomes to update estimates of the likelihood of a hypothesis. " --- Scott Spanbauer

I found a awesome spam tool that uses this hypothesis... Check out http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/

It rates messages and LEARNS what is spam to you and what is not. it doesn't seem to rely on spam indexing services like Cloudmark and others like spamcop and stuff... It doesn't do it completely on a search and find word basis, but more as an analysis of the word contents. This uses a probability scaling to delete spam, using an eliminate/unsure/Inbox technique.

It is FREE, so give it a try... I seem to like it and it has never killed an email that i needed.

:ph34r:


PCworld Review: http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,112478,00.asp

[muttdog]

Originally posted by Joe@Nov 9 2003, 01:10 AM
Total for the day - 293!
BTW is 293 the number of spam or the number of help tickets? haha (shh, some of them were mine.)

[Joe]

We've been using this helpdesk system for over a year. We just logged ticket 878. That equates to about 2.2 tickets a day. Included in there is at least one for every customer that had to move to another server for some reason (crashes, etc).

I think that's pretty respectable :)

[muttdog]

Originally posted by Joe@Nov 12 2003, 09:49 AM
We've been using this helpdesk system for over a year. We just logged ticket 878. That equates to about 2.2 tickets a day. Included in there is at least one for every customer that had to move to another server for some reason (crashes, etc).

I think that's pretty respectable :)
Damn, I would have expected tons more... not that there are problems, but I would have expected more tickets like "Do I need to be connected to the Internet to download email?" or "I just ordered a hostpc, but it never came in the mail. I was so excited to tell my family i got a new PC for only 9/month, but it hasn't come yet. Are you still sending me my hostpc?"

[dbmasters]

I have used SpamBayes it is VERY cool. I recommend that over any other solution. Also, on a side note, Outlook 2003 has a junk mail filter built right in it that is very nice as well.

[muttdog]

Originally posted by dbmasters@Nov 12 2003, 10:52 AM
I have used SpamBayes it is VERY cool. I recommend that over any other solution. Also, on a side note, Outlook 2003 has a junk mail filter built right in it that is very nice as well.
oh no, a microsoft spam filter? hehehe.

/*
ALLOW = microsoft.com; hotmail.com; passport.com
*/

Phew, that lets through all the good ads...

[dbmasters]

:lol:

[mikeeve]

Another Bayesian spam filter for free is K9. Works with Outlook Express. I've been using it for about a month now.

Check it out here: K9 Homepage (http://www.keir.net/k9.html)

K9 is much discussed on the grc.spam newsgroup (newserver: news.grc.com) where the author hangs out.