March 17th was a big day for me. It was the day I deleted my older e-mail accounts that were by spam collectors (well, I kept one but more on that later). While it’s a huge pain I’d been changing e-mail addresses since the beginning of the year. And the 17th was the day I [...] Read more »
Recap
I haven’t done much (OK, I haven’t done anything) for almost a month. Some of this is because Spam has been out of my mind. I’ve migrated off of my e-mail addresses that get all my spam and run those e-mails through both the Pobox.com and GMail filters before they hit my inbox. The bottom [...] Read more »
AOL/Yahoo/GMail Spam Filters
There wasn’t much time for counting spam this week so I needed to do something simple. I forwarded my Pobox email email to 5 different addresses to compare the ISP spam filters. All these numbers are for the default filter settings without any additional training (if they support training) and received spam for 5 days. [...] Read more »
This Week In Spam
This past week was spent getting used to the software, ISP’s and Spam filters. Here’s a summary… The only two places spam arrives directly from the internet are at my email forwarder and GMail. GMail Gmail (Google Mail) received 18 Spam e-mails over 5 days. There were not any false positives and no spam got [...] Read more »