Anybody using Spamnet ?

I'm dubious. When I was using spamcop as a filter, i started missing emails from people. I think some of them use filters for email return addresses and subject lines that *look* like spam, but sadly a lot of people's emails do, too.

Just about every time I got an email that had a return addy like "yourname87654@yahoo_com" with a subject line with 'sale' or 'auction' in it, it marked it as spam. I dunno how many I lost before I started manually deleting spam.

Mailwasher is what I use now. It lets you peruse the email before you download it, and delete and bounce them if you decide they are spam: http://www.mailwasher.net/

Hmmm, I have web-access to my e-mail, so I can delete it before it arrives on my comp. I wanted to do it in some easier way...

If you can get one to work without trashing legit email, let me know. I'm too sceered to risk it. People get agitated when they are waiting on a payment or an item and the email bounces.

AFAIK Spamnet doesn't delete the mails but saves them in a spam folder it creates in Outlook. So You still have a chance to get them back. I am so bored of creating new filters when new spam arrives.

I use MailWasher Pro www.mailwasher.net and find it really quite good (most of the time).

Sorry, the link wasn't active, here it is: again http://www.mailwasher.net

Try a recent version of mozilla. It has bayesian spam filtering built in, and it works pretty good. Just gotta train it first by marking some spam as spam, after that it does it automaticaly.

Yep. Been using it for months and I love it. It works. I love the whole idea behind it - people helping others out with spam.

I also like the way it only MOVES messages - you can keep an eye on it so it behaves itself.

Only bad thing is that its Outlook only, but I'm Outlok only too.

I've been using Spamnet for a couple of months and highly recommend it.
It works exactly the way it should. It's free.
All of your email still comes in to your inbox, but then spamnet moves the spam messages to a spam folder. You can watch them disappearing from the inbox. If you want to read them, you just click on the spam folder, and there they are. If you get a spam message that doesn't get picked up by spamnet, you just highlight it, and then click on the 'block' button, and it gets sent to the spam folder. It also gets added to the spamnet database.
Very cool. No worries. It's perfect.
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Installed it. Really seems to be a good thing.

SpamNet is great for me.

But once you have downloaded the spam from the server, doesn't this verify to the spammer it is a valid email address? I was hoping it would bounce the email like mailwasher does.

I prefer Mailwasher. Once you've bounced a spammer a few times they go away. Just deleting the spam doesn't stop it being sent.

My ISP is supposed to intercept incoming spam ...who knows what they are stopping

But when the mail has arrived at my ISP, it is received nevertheless ? Or am I seeing that wrong ? So what does mailwasher do in that case ?