Here’s why I love Brightmail‘s free spam filtering service: because spam is nothing short of annoying, offensive, and often illegal e-mail that is good for prednisone absolutely nothing. And Brightmail keeps the garbage from ever crossing my line of vision. In fact, I’d say that 85% of all spam is blocked by Brightmail, and the rest I report to Spamcop.
Here’s a brief example of the 14 spam messages Brightmail blocked in one day alone, representing 44k of saved bandwidth on my end:
== SUSPECTED SPAM REMOVED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT============================Subject From Date Caught Size--------------------------- ---------------------- ----------- -----$200,000 WORTH OF FREE A... [email protected] 11/15/2000 1730 Accept All Credit Cards ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 4164 KONLIN Letter Sets $4 - ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 6023 Are you serious about ma... [email protected]... 11/15/2000 1530 End the Confusion... ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 2149 More Sales + NO Set Up F... [email protected] 11/15/2000 3791 Accept All Credit Cards ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 4365 ***Explosion*** ... moneycipriano@conne... 11/15/2000 2160 MAKE WINDOWS MORE RELIABLE [email protected] 11/15/2000 1555 Need More Energy, Less S... [email protected] 11/15/2000 3044 Billions of dollars that... [email protected] 11/15/2000 4096 Progress... ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 1252 Let us make sure you're ... [email protected] 11/15/2000 3607 Adv: Are you tired of pa... [email protected] 11/15/2000 5385 =======================================================================
Brightmail is nice because it requires no additional software — it simply serves as a proxy for your normal POP3 server. If you trust Brightmail (an issue that does come up with any remote proxy like this), then you can easily block spam. Check it out. -ram
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