There's Spam and spam

Published 11 December 03 02:11 PM | despos

I'm back at work again. I've spent a whole week in the States to teach a class and caught my breathe until takeoff because of the snow. I wasn't flying through NYC, fortunately, but some snow was expected in Tennessee too.

I had limited email access over the week (plus the weekends around) and twice I risked to have potentially important emails bounce back to the sender. You know it--just spam.

At the same time, I was reading passages from my currently favorite book--Flyboys by James Bradley. The book is about some events occurred during WWII. One of the pilots interviewed said something about the (average good) quality of food they could get on aircraft carriers. And he mentions Spam--spiced ham.

Is ours a war against spam? Any chance to win it? Any feedback on Outlook 2003? I was told it has an excellent anti-spam filter...

Comments

# Ingo Rammer said on December 11, 2003 10:22 AM:

O2003 rocks. It catches approx 98%-99% of my daily spam dose (~150 mails) with only one business-related false positive since the beta days. (i.e. "one error in 200 days" or such)

It however also catched some newsletters which is not exactly a problem for me but might be for others ...

-Ingo

# Jan-Erik said on December 12, 2003 09:50 AM:

Outlook 2003 + SpamBayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/) works wonderful. After training SpamBayes on spam vs real mail for a while, it gets just about every spam I receive and not a single real mail.

# Rick Strahl said on December 15, 2003 10:07 PM:

Here in Hawaii, Spam is a delicacy... Nothing like SPAM Sushi!!

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