Hi, I'm Ian Richards, your new editor. Almost everyone just
calls me "Gizmo" and I'd be flattered if you would too.
I've got some great news for you. I've pretty well beaten
Spam. It's not a complete victory, only 96%, but if you
think that's good enough then read on and I'll tell you how
you can do it too.
Over the last 6 months I've tried all sorts of approaches
and products to defeat the spammers. Almost everything I
tried failed, except for two products.
The first is called MailWasher, a neat donation-ware email
previewer we've mentioned before in Support Alert.
Apart from performing the highly useful task of allowing
you to see your mail on your email server before you
download it, MailWasher additionally allows you to bounce
any mail item direct from your server.
This means that a message is sent back to the spammer
saying that their (unwanted) message could not be delivered.
Spammers may then remove you from their list, hopefully
permanently. Of course some spammers may not even care if
their messages are not delivered. The crunch is in the
actual numbers.
Over a four week period I managed to cut my Spam by 64%
just by bouncing unwanted mail. Not bad, particularly when
you consider I have probably been permanently removed from
their lists as well.
However that still leaves me with a third of my Spam to
contend with. So here's my next weapon, SpamNet.
Cloudmark's SpamNet is a free service and it's brilliant.
It works like this. Users of the system are tied together
invisibly by a P2P network. Users identify Spam and that
information is propagated across the network so that Spam
is filtered in the in-box of other users. At the moment
SpamNet only works through an Outlook add-in, so users of
other email clients are out of luck.
It works like a charm. You can literally watch the Spam
disappear from your in-box before your eyes. It's not
immediately deleted, just moved to a spam folder for later
review before permanent deletion.
And it's really effective, with 74% of Spam being totally
wiped out. As more users join the network the figure will
probably increase.
Now here's the good news. By combining SpamNet with
MailWasher I've now eliminated 96% of my Spam. Now Spam
messages are almost RARE on my computer, a threatened
species! Nice eh?
Using these two products together, while effective, is not
really an ideal solution. In some ways they work against
each other. An ideal product would include both bouncing
and network filtering in one package but for the moment, we
have to work with what we've got.
So go for it. Fight back. Give the spammers what they
deserve and download these free products now.
Blykbaar was daar vandag probleme met die uitreiking van die kaartjies - die
stelsel het gecrash en in die eerste uur is daar slegs 12 kaartjies
wêreldwyd verkoop.
Dit nadat voorspel is dat al die kaartjies binne die eerste dag opgeraap en
verkoop sou word.
Ek kan nie mooi onthou nie, maar ek verbeel my die kaartjieskopers moet hul
ID boekies toon as hul 'n kaartjie koop, en slegs een kaartjie per persoon
gaan verkoop word?
Nietemin - as die ID nommer op die kaartjie aangebring word, dan gaan die
vals ID dokumentmakers alweer lekker geld maak:)
Sien gister in Rapport die berig oor die jong plaasvrou doer in die
noord-weste wat begin skiet het met 'n jaggeweer op swart 4 mans en 'n vrou.
Sy't die een gewond en toe hol hulle weg en haar man is met die bakkie
agterna en het hulle van die pad af gedruk. Al 5 is in hegtenis. Way to
go! Al hoe meer boere moet paraat raak en begin looi onder die
misdadigers. Dis die enigte taal wat hulle sal verstaan.
Gisteraand kon ons toe die idole weer hoor sing.
Selle liedjies, maar die keer was van hulle verwag om die verhoog vol te
hardloop.
Heinz se energievlak was bietjie laag - hy het net sing-sing tot na vore
beweeg en toe een goedgeoefende heupswaai gemaak:))
Annette
Sedert Donderdagaand, na die aankondiging van die kaartjies vir die
krieketwêreldbeker, het mense glo by Wanderers begin toustaan winternagdeur
vir kaartjies ( daar is glo slegs 22 000 kaartjies beskikbaar vir die wat
nie wil pakette koop nie)
Nietemin Baas Ali kondig toe Vrydag af dat die kaartjies eers van Maandag
( vandag) vir verkope gereed sal wees.
Geen persoon sal op enige vlug toegelaat word sonder die toon van hul ID
dokumente nie.
Mense wat op buitelandse vlugte vertrek moet nou 3 ure voor die tyd aanmeld,
en die op binnelandse vlugte 1 uur.
Dit het glo iets te doen met die wêreldberaad in Sandton volgende maand.
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