Spam, spam, spam, spam

[tinyjo]

I've suddenly started getting porn spam for some reason :( This means that I need some spam filtering. As I can't install spamassasin on my webhosts servers, any suggestions for good, preferably free, client side equivalents?

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[blufive.livejournal.com]

Recent (1.3alpha onwards) mozilla builds have a pretty good bayesian spam detector built into mailnews. The "bin it automatically" feature isn't there yet, though you can run a filter manually to get the lot at one fell swoop. (alpha/beta software, might crash, yada, yada, yada)

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the Mozilla one comes with a pre-filled database, but this technique (filtering on the words on existing spam to spot more spam) requires a corpus of spam, so start saving it in a folder rather than binning it so that when you have a Bayesian filter you have something to work with.

Incidentally the bloke with the patent on this algorithm was in the same class as Damian and me at college.

Don't enable a preview pane when dragging it: most contain a zero pixel graphic with your e-mail address in a query string that act as a read-receipt to the spammer when they check their server logs.

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Nope, no ready-made junkpile. But aquiring one shouldn't be a problem if you really need the filter. :(

re: zero-pixel graphics aka webbugs:
mozilla has an option to supress remote images in mail/news. Which is useful.