Spam
 

The whole spam thing is outta control. My ISP offers SpamAssassin, and I use that in conjunction with procmail and my own custom rules. Between the two, this gets 99.98% of the spam.

I just checked my procmail log, and did a quick count of the spam messages that have been caught and dealt with automatically. From 2003/07/01 to 2003/07/30 11:45, there have been 14354 intercepted spam messages.

Wow.

This is mail directed to my home address, which I've had since the early 90's, and to various vintagebus.com addresses. A lot of the spam is to my ebay maildrop; I specifically turn around and stuff that back into the abuse@ and safeharbor@ and a couple other ebay mail drops, which I'm sure are symlinked to /dev/null

procmail. Heh. At least you are using a real operating system.

I've had no problem with Mozilla and its built in spam killer... between that and what you are already using, that may be enough. But I really don't get a lot of spam anyway - 10 or so on my home account, which I've had since '94, about the same here at work. Most of the work ones are on my old domain (we got a new domain last year, both are still active), so those are really easy to filter out as well.

What really sucks is that for any of this to work (unless you are running on a hosted/colocated server somewhere that you have control over) is you still have to waste your bandwidth to download it before you can filter it out.

Word. Of course, if it weren't broken, it probably wouldn't be "Simple", either.