Re: This Weekend I am Mostly......

"Dale Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:10:34 -0000, "hatty"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> >What is spam assassin?
>
> It's an antispam program that works out what's spam is by giving loads
> of little things a score depending on how much it appears in spam.
> It's also got some of magic 'learning' program which when you feed it
> all the emails that it made mistakes on, it alters the scores (or
> makes new ones up) so that it's better the next time.
>
> It's on the sorted.org server (which collects my email) so it catches
> 99% of the spam even before I get to download it. Obviously with the
> PC version you still have to download all the spam but at least you
> can set up Outlook to move the crap into Spam folders automatically.
>
> The PC version is called sa-proxy. You can download a copy from
> http://www.statalabs.com/. It's a bit fiddly to set up but once you've
> got it working it's easy to adjust.

I might give it ago. I know my over enthusiastic deleting has lost me a few
e-mails.

>
> >Its gone very quiet round here - everyone given up clubbing and taken up
> >basket weaving or summat I guess.
>
> Maybe they've finally realised it's more fun doing it than talking
> about it.
>
> A lot of the chat has gone to more specific web forum sites (not a fan
> of web forums myself) but at least they stop the 'drive by' trollers.

Me neither -(fan of web forums) but even less of a fan of mailing list type
things.  Web forums seem either too cliquey or populated with cross people
what swear a lot. I was a late comer to umr - at the end of its better shelf
life I guess.  I just talk to myself, these days, on my live journal :-)

hatty