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Now that I'm getting far more spam than real mail, it's time to revisit the available spam filters out there. I haven't run one in many years, but it's getting to be almost impossible to wade through the crap in order to find the half dozen or so legitimate emails I get each day.
What do you recommend, and why?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, better than a spam filter still is not getting any spam at all. When I sign up on some website, I usually use a mail address which I only use for this purpose. When suddently spam starts coming in, I know exactly who to thank for it and my real mail address stays free.
Perhaps it's time for a new mail address and then sending a notification to all those who you want to hear from.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I also have a spam email account that I use whenever I am required to enter an email address.
I clean it out every 3 or 4 months and my regular email address only gets a little spam which I filter to a spam folder.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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So Chrome stopped printing and you're getting tons of spam every day...
From what I gather you're visiting all the wrong websites.
So here's what to do.
Clear out your browsing history (EVERYTHING, on all browsers, completely!), drive a stake through your computers hard disk and motherboard and then burn it then take a shower and wash yourself with some green soap, twice. I recommend getting a priest to help you, just in case any demons escape. It'll be a while for everything to get back to normal. I hope you weren't planning on selling your house, no one likes a haunted house!
Hope that helps 
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Nope, different computers, different locations, different addresses. Whoever is making money selling my address, I want my cut!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I hate to say this but gmail works pretty damn well, at least for me. You can also configure it, and it is free. They offer a business account, if needed (not free).
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GMail always puts CP stuff into the junk folder. I have tried the usual, marking it as NOT SPAM! and making sure the CP addresses are in my contacts list. No improvement.
I tried e-mailing support@gmail.com only to receive a failure notification, the address is no longer valid. So how do I find the correct address? Tried Googling it and got support@gmail.com.
Frankly I am fed up with GMail and its nonsense, like "organising" my mail so that I can't find anything.
I am on the verge if going back to Yahoo.
At least I know where to find the Daily Build etc..
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I don't experience any of the issues you have mentioned.
Herbie Mountjoy wrote: like "organising" my mail so that I can't find anything.
Really!? 
I have been using gmail for years with no issues that could not be resolved easily. I never had to reach out to Google for anything.
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Quote: I have been using gmail for years with no issues
Likewise, squire. Wouldn't change it for all the tea in China ... and doubly so for Yahoo!
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i also have yahoo and outlook.com accounts and they're almost spam-free.
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RAW, can you email me? Let's chat offline re: spam. I have the same problem 'cos I run my own mailserver.
Cheers,
/ravi
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If you are using Outlook, try SpamBayes. After a week of training, it seems to be >95% effective for me (I run all my email through Outlook). Some people have reported having issues getting it to work with Outlook 2013, but I haven't noticed any problems.
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I used it many years ago, when it was still shiny and wet behind the ears, and it worked fairly well. I'll give it another look, though. Thanks! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Here's an article about blocking spam. It describes methods that have worked for me for over 10 years.
hsv-life.com/spam_filtering.htm
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I recommend putting the word "junk" in your email address. My last email account, about 15 years ago, was full of spam. When I got a new ISP I created a junk email address, samjunk@... and it's been 15 years or so now and I almost never get any spam. I do get a lot of email from businesses I've given it to, but no spam. I think the spammers filter out "junk" addresses.
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I tried something similar, but apparently they don't filter out "spam" addresses, so my nospam@... gets as much spam as my others (more since I tend to use it in situations where I'm expecting my address to end up on yet another 'list')
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So, I'll just backup and get to safety[^] and at the same time run over and crush the motorcylce behind me.  
Some people should have their driver's licenses permently revoked!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Perfectly understandable, sir. Happens to the best of us. Move along...
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: So, I'll just backup and get to safety and at the same time run over and crush the motorcylce behind me
I once drove into a parking house at a mall on a saturday when all idiotic shoppers where out (well, including me for being there at the first place). The parking was almost full and there was a long que inside, but sudenly the car in front of me saw a car lightning up the reverse lights to back out of a parking place. So the car in front on me suddenly starts backing up without looking behind him, ha only came a meter and a half...<
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Linkie broken. But the error page is one of the coolest I've seen in a long time... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: the error page is one of the coolest I've seen in a long time
Yes it is. I like the way the eyes follow your cursor. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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But everyone is against computer driven cars, so this is what we have to learn to live with instead.. it's a simple choice.
It's easy to laugh at clips like these and say "what a stupid person, I'd never do anything like that" but we're all human, we all make mistakes, some with more serious consequences than others. Have I made mistakes driving? Of course - many, the same as every other driver - and every time I drive. Most people just don't realise they're making mistakes - that's the dangerous part.
With humans at the wheel, it's not "if" we're going to have an accident, it's "when and how bad". Computer driven vehicles won't stop accidents, but they'd certainly be a lot less often.
But hey, what about our freedom, eh?
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: But hey, what about our freedom, eh?
What about the freedom of the pedestrians you mow down because you are texting while you drive? The couple into whose front room you drove because you had too many beers?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's exactly my point
There was an article in the news last week about the Google self-driven car having "another" accident (making it sound like it was the self-driven car that had caused the accidents).
When you actually read the article, it'd been rear-ended by a human driver... again!
I enjoy driving when I'm back in Wales, but it's a real hassle when closer to London. All in all, I'd rather have a computer driving me around when commuting, then have some fun driving at a local track or when the roads aren't congested.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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