This may seem obvious to some of you gurus:

Personally, I pay for a provider with bullet-proof spam protection. In the average month, I might get as many as 20 or 30 spam emails delivered to my account. Of those, 80% are delivered to my "Junk Mail" folder, with very few false positives. I get, at most, 4 to 6 junk mail messages in my Inbox.

I've never known anything like this service. It's like rediscovering email for the first time. Whenever I talk about it, I sound like an advert for the company. I'm not in any way careful about who I give my email address to, or where I use it on the net. The server simply kills email from known spam sites silently, without it being delivered to my account. Suspected spam is tagged as such, and delivered to my Junk Mail folder, and mail from my contacts is whitelisted so that it is never flagged as junk.

For this service I pay 20 dollars a year. The site is http://www.fastmail.fm/ and they offer IMAP-4 and POP-3 interfaces to mail accounts, which means they will be compatible with whatever software you prefer to use. Since you mentioned that you'd prefer freeware, I'm sure this probably isn't really of a great deal of use to you, but it is the ultimate protection from spam, as far as I know.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Well, technically, if I WANT to buy spam software, I CAN. It's on the company, you know?[

But I would rather AVOID having to pay and install the software. I mean, I have these incredibly high expectations of things I pay for. It's silly, I know.

I understand entirely. The service has, however, exceeded my wildest expectations.

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After downloading Mozilla Firebird from Mozilla, may it be noted that there was a virus embedded in the file mapiattach.tmp. Or so Norton tells me. I tried to google it and it seems I am not alone in finding it in the installation.

I'd suggest that Norton is generating a false positive on this, personally. It would be hard to convince me that Mozilla sofware contains a virus. However, I'm going to keep an open mind, since I can't claim to know for sure that it does not.

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