Comment Spam & Mail Spam!

Got the first comment spam on this blog yesterday. And… was impressed by Wordpress, as it automatically put the comment into moderation queue, and dropped me a mail to moderate it! Will have to keep an watch for the next few days.

Talking about spam, I was just wondering how you people handle spam mails! This is how I knock-off spam on different email accounts that I have:

• GMail -> The Spam filter works pretty well for me. You can use GMail as spam filter for your regular-non-gmail-mailid! Most of the mails that come to my domain are routed to my gmail account.
• My Domain -> @ the domain level, my hosting provider (jodohost) gives me SpamAssassin support. So, major chunk of Spam is marked here.
• Yahoo -> Spam filters work decently.
• gmx.net -> This one is kind of my primary id. And gmx.net has one of the best spam filters that I have come across. Also, while checking the gmx.net account via pop, I get a summary report of mails that have been marks as spam. I get around 30+ spam mails per day to my primary id, and gmx.net identifies around 99% of spam, which is very effective!
• Outlook -> To finally to clean up rest of the spam that manage to reach my inbox, (around 1% of the spam), I use spambayes outlook plug-in. This program takes some time to learn your spam pattern. But after that, it rocks! Do give it a try.

What about you? How do you take out spam?

Add comment | April 26th, 2005 at 10:47am