Are you still eating Spam?
Well I can’t help you if you like the mystery meat(??) kind…However if you’re still being served up spam in your inbox, here are a few pieces of advice.
Anti-spam technology today is so good that even the most rudimentary forms of filtering should be about 96% effective. The better providers are upwards of 99% effective.
If you’re still seeing too much of it, here are some suggestions…
1) If you’re a home user try changing your email account to GMAIL. You’ll definitely get less spam.
2) If you don’t want to change your email account and you use Outlook or Outlook Express, try installing SpamBayes or PopFile. They’re free and they do a good job. The downside is you have to install and train them before they will work for you.
3) Another option is to use Thunderbird as your email client. It has an excellent built-in spam filter.
4) If you’re a business user, your company can install a simple spam filtering system at your gateway. In this way, all the company email is filtered before it is delivered. There literally dozens of vendors who offer solutions that do a good job and in most cases won’t break the budget. If your company is pinched for money but they are willing to tinker, Spam Assassin is a good choice. It’s free, very light on resources and it works fairly well.
5) Another option is to use a service that filters mail before it arrives at your mail server. It’s a bit more expensive up-front but it saves you the investment of hardware, software and maintenance. It involves some simple changes from your ISP so you’ll need to get them involved if that’s your solution.
We offer several anti-spam solutions that are scalable from 10 users up to tens of thousands of users. Our choice of vendors is based on their reputation and longevity in the market. If you would like some more information, please contact us at sales@gnscon.com or 814-620-2006