Coming back from holiday I found I had 694 unread emails and this time around I thought it might make a good test of my anti-spam software, mailwasher. Using Spamcop‘s blacklist and rules of its own it only missed 20 of the spam emails I received (2.8%) and it only mistakenly rejected four messages (.5%)

“US experts suggest 90% of internet users receive unsolicited e-mails and one in 10 is pornographic…” and some of the recipients are children (though there are no figures provided to indicate what proportion are.

Even Declan McCullagh, one of the old school digerati, can’t bring himself to support government regulation to tackle spammers. The spam issue is where the instinctive libertarianism of many American online veterans runs into its hardest test case.

Here in Europe we have started to bring in anti-spam laws covering our own countries. Declan complains that “…so much of the stuff comes from overseas. Eighteen months ago, two of five Internet providers receiving the most spam complaints were based outside the country.” In other words, three of five spammers are based in the US! Surely a little regulation to make things hot for these miscreants would be welcome. Even if it didn’t make the problem go away it might at least mean a would-be spammer would have to make their way to an increasingly small number of “rogue states” where spamming is still legal…

There are a number of good spam prevention solutions out there but unfortunately I couldn’t use any of them for a few of my accounts – many of them are for Outlook only at the moment and I prefer Eudora. Others require your ISP to sign up. But at last I found Mailwasher, which lets me check my POP3 email and “cleanse” it quickly and easily either by referring to one or more known spammer black lists (including ORDB and SpamCop) or by referring to rules I set up. I recently tested it against 96 spams and got two false positives (only listed as “possible” and “probable” spam) and three real spams let through. That’s good enough for me – especially as Mailwasher is free!

The BBC reports, “Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials…”

…”The law would also allow the record companies to place programs on the machines of peer-to-peer networks to let them trace who is pirating pop.”

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The good news – Cloudmark has a spam filter which is free for consumer use and which uses collaborative filtering. If you receive a spam, you indicate it as such and a master database is updated so nobody else has to receive it. The bad news? It only works at the moment with Outlook, which is more prone to spreading viruses than other email software and I therefore avoid.

Is there any free Windows software out there that works reasonably well to stop spam that anyone out there can recommend?

Most of Europe wanted to make businesses ask permission from consumers before sending them email but our representative Michael Cashman persuaded them that it would be better to make consumers “opt out”. That said, I have looked at what I believe is the relevant document
and I can’t see that anything important has changed. It could be that one of the other documents listed contains the sinister amendment. The reporter says that the information was sourced from Michael Cashman’s office and from EuroISPA, so I guess we’ll just have to see how things pan out.porn made amateurnext porn star hot americassexual degree 2nd assaultamateur homemade mpegs pornanime pics mature 3d sexvideo upload site amateur pornsharing porn amateuranalysis activity hazard Map