Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have some news stories and software updates that caught my eye. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided to summarize them here. [...] Read more »
Change of Address Stops Most Spam – GMail Stops the Rest
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 »
Apple Mail vs. Thunderbird
The past week was spent seeing how well Apple Mail and Thunderbird (Mac) handled junk mail. Both clients received the same email sent by my forwarder. Neither received any direct spam. Apple Mail flagged 371 out of 408 emails as Spam for a 91% success rate. There weren’t any false positives. Thunderbird trailed Apple Mail [...] Read more »