Re: Fighting spam

**"Bruce Zimmerman" a*@canada.com**

We have been using MailWasher for at least 2 years if not more.  We love it.  It
DOES NOT reduce the amount of spam - you just get to delete it from the server
rather than downloading it onto your computer and then deleting it.  We still
get about 50-80 spams per day minimum!!

Bruce
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Bruce Zimmerman
Open-Line Garden Show
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abz1@canada.com
www.brucezimmerman.com

> The following spam-washer software just caught my attention, and looks like
it's worth
> investigating.
>
> Yvonne Cunnington
> www.theperennialfarm.com
>  ______________________________________________________________________
>   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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