Re: Fighting spam

**"Yvonne Cunnington" y*@sympatico.ca**

I'm a dovotee of www://aldaily.com, a neat digest of interesting articles
from periodicals around the world -- perfect for those days when you're
procrastinating on an assigment (isn't that every day?). The following
spam-washer software just caught my attention, and looks like it's worth
investigating.

Yvonne Cunnington
www.theperennialfarm.com

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  Dear Arts & Letters Daily Reader,

  I don't know what it's like on your computer, but I'm being drowned in
spam. I used to think that there was no relief for junk email other than
continuous use of the delete key, but it's not so.

  MailWasher is the brainchild of my fellow-Christchurch resident, Nick
Bolton. Like the many users of Nick's program, I now swear by it. (And by
the way, "many" means well over 100,000 registered computer users.)

  Once it's installed, MailWasher creates a preview-page for your email. It
is connected live to two servers that continuously monitor spammers and
their addresses. It uses both the email you receive from friends and from
spammers to build up two lists unique to your email system: a personal
Friends List and a Blacklist.

  After sorting your email and asking your approval of its decisions,
MailWasher deletes the spam from your server (without it ever being actually
downloaded to your computer). This is much less tedious than having to
decide and delete for yourself.

  MailWasher then cleverly sends back to each spammer a message saying that
your email address no longer exists. Of course, you might prefer to send
back a message telling the spammer to jump in the nearest sewage pond, but
that would just inform the rascal that yours is a valid email address.
MailWasher's strategy is smarter.

  MailWasher also detects viruses in email droplets floating around the
Internet and identifies them for deletion before your computer inhales them.
It's an added safeguard.

  You can click here (http://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasherpro/) to
find out about installing MailWasher. I heartily recommend it. There's even
a Hotmail version. (Alas, not available for Macs.)

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