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New You've got it easy. :-)
I'm getting 150 or so pieces of spam a day. Since only get 1-2 real pieces of e-mail a day, it's pretty easy for me to quickly delete the spam.

The standard solution to this problem is SpamAssassin. I'm using a precompiled version for Windows called [link|http://www.statalabs.com/|SAProxy] which doesn't seem to be available now (replaced by SAProxyPro). It catches a lot of spam out of the box and presumably can be taught to catch more, but I haven't taken the time to try to figure out how to do it with my e-mailer (PMMail).

Note SAProxyPro is shareware, $29.95. I haven't tried it.

Spam Assassin can be installed on Win32 (see, e.g. [link|http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa260.html|this] page), but it's fairly involved (you need to install ActivePerl, etc., and there are some limitations).

v6.1 of [link|http://eudora.com/email/|Eudora] has fairly good spam filters that are easy to teach, but you need the paid mode to access that feature - $49.95.

Most of the stuff discussed here on IWeThey has been for Linux, but searching through the archive may be useful.

HTH, a bit.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Mozilla is your friend
Two lines of defense in its mail client:

1) Message filter: easy to use, but not very bright (when will someone implement a message filter with Boolean logic (AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR) and/or regular expressions?)

2) Span Idenitifier: Automatically teaches itself what constitutes SPAM. I get approx. 500 Spams a week, and this thing pegs about 90% of it. You have to teach it what's SPAM and what's not, but after a while, it gets pretty good.
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT

     SPAM Question - (gdaustin) - (31)
         You've got it easy. :-) - (Another Scott) - (1)
             Mozilla is your friend - (jb4)
         You're getting SPAM? - (pwhysall) - (17)
             s/tasty/horribly nasty -NT - (inthane-chan) - (15)
                 Feh to you and your wussy tastebuds. -NT - (pwhysall) - (14)
                     Bah, I like my meat to be identifiable. -NT - (inthane-chan) - (13)
                         Ever eat a hotdog or burger? - (pwhysall) - (12)
                             Bingo. - (inthane-chan)
                             Or... - (folkert) - (10)
                                 headcheese, hotdogs with boiled hooves -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                                     Head cheese is even better than hotdogs . . - (Andrew Grygus)
                                 So? Did you know . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                                     Yeah... I was just trying to pile on. -NT - (folkert)
                                 Urban legend? - (Another Scott) - (4)
                                     I know a meat cutter who slaughtered in CA - (boxley)
                                     Nope, NOT urban legend. - (folkert) - (2)
                                         Makes me wonder. - (jake123)
                                         There are also thick books of pictures . . - (Andrew Grygus)
                                 ..and for spices, most other 'foods' - (Ashton)
             Win32 Client / Debian 3.0 Firewall / Comcast.net mail server - (gdaustin)
         I like the ocational nugget of corn in the steaming pile -NT - (boxley)
         Same problem at work - (jbrabeck)
         A sneaky Spam just received - (dmarker) - (7)
             Re: A sneaky Spam just received - (inthane-chan) - (6)
                 More info - (jbrabeck) - (5)
                     Was anyone game to vistit the site with a browser :-) - (dmarker) - (4)
                         I did. - (imric)
                         Page source for main page: - (inthane-chan) - (1)
                             HTML help exploit? - (inthane-chan)
                         Page source for thx.html - (inthane-chan)
         Two options for you - (orion)

Jane! Jane, get me off this crazy thing!
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