Active Spam Killer
I got somewhat bored the other day and have decided to try out a different anti-spam (or UCE if you perfer) tool called Active Spam Killer. I’m currently using it instead of SpamAssassin, which I have been using for a while now. Basically, instead of taking SA’s approach of trying to determine if a message is spam or not based on a number of patterns, database checks, and word probabilites, ASK just considers all mail to be unwanted unless it’s sender is on it’s whitelist. Any sender it doesn’t know about is sent a confirmation message, and once confirmed, they’re added to the whitelist.
So far it seems to be working pretty well, havn’t gotten any spam through it, which is to be expected, and after a little bit of work of setting up all my mailing lists, it doesn’t appear to be trapping any of my legitimate email. I know it’s a slight inconvenience for other people when they first send me something, but since I don’t get much non-list mail anyway, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
if it works out well (and better than SA) would you consider switching me over. SA is doing an ok job but a good number of SPAM is getting through. It also might be time for me to kill off that email account and go with mperry@ or something like that. It’s simply getting nuts. I had 400+ emails after two days of not checking it.