Archive for December 22nd, 2002

SPAM for breakfast

What does an enterprising geek like me do on an early Sunday morning?
Kill SPAM.
Estimates of the amount of time and money that are wasted dealing with SPAM are in the $20 per user range. For a small company, that can be a real drain on resources. For a large company, like, say, a multi national bank, it adds up quick.
One of my many email addresses is about 5 years old now, and I also get all of the mail for geekforce.com. That adds up to alot of SPAM. Services like Yahoo! Mail have pretty sophisticated SPAM filters set up, and that is one of the reasons that I have an accnt. with them. It’s also free. (Well, if you ignore the ads, but I digress). Having installed and tested a few personal spam filters, I wanted to share my impressions….
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