Our email address is over 2 decades old. On average, we get over 50 spams a day through the common filters that we have set up for
OB1Net.
Using a
Bayesian filter, 99.9% of these wind up in the Spam box of the mail client.
OB1Net strictly adheres to a policy of not examining any of the data flowing through the network to or from any of its members unlike other organizations such as the
NSA ,
AOL or
MSN.
The current
BotNet method of delivering Spam defeats all meta data methods of filtering Spam. What we mean by this is, that without programming the mail server to actually examine the content of the Emails passing through the system. OB1Net is helpless to prevent the Bots from delivering Spam until they are recognized and added to the
lists of known Spam generating machines on the Internet.
We suggest that you investigate the Spam filtering abilities of your Email client or download
ThunderBird and use it as your Email Client. Thunderbird has a
Bayesian integrated into it. You may also use
PopFile, PopFile will work with your existing mail client and we have found it very effective.
A word of hope we, the designers of the Internet, recognize Spam as the virulent effluent that it is. Some time in the future, it will be impossible for these criminals to send unsolicited messages to you without your express consent. The Internet is a mere 3 decades old, we hope it is not "perfected" in our life time.
