June 15, 2003

TIME has some spam recommendations:

Outlook users might be better off buying a third-party program, and the market's flooded with them. Ella ($29.95) stands out for its simplicity .. it uses an adaptive engine to "learn" your preferences � what qualifies as junk, which messages are top priority and which can be put aside for later � and organizes your e-mail accordingly. QURB ($24.95) and Mailblocks ($9.95 a year) are also worth a look. Finally, there's a community project that attacks spam .. with a blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective.

And Virginia Postrel has this:

The combination of SpamAssassin at the server and Entourage's next to highest setting mostly works, except Entourage still misclassifies a lot of my NYT reader mail as junk.
Posted by Greg Ransom