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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
More Options for the Spam Weary
Matador, a nice-looking spam blocking solution from MailFrontier, is available as a free beta for users of Outlook (support is coming for Outlook Express, Eudora and other mail clients). Here's the gist:
"Matador's unique patent-pending Smart Select™ technology automatically sorts email using white lists, black lists, machine intelligence, and the community to determine messages that could be junk, and then verifies them with a challenge."
This tool sounds very similar to Cloudmark, a collaborative P2P spam filter that debuted earlier this year. I run Cloudmark with Outlook on my home computer (a lousy eMachine), but due to some unknown incompatibility, it doesn't work on my office machine (a gosh darn Dell!). So, as soon as I power up tomorrow at the office, I'm going to install Matador and see how it works.
If you use Outlook and get hundreds of spam every day like I do, these types of filters, which are much more effective than normal Outlook rules, are an absolute must!
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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