"martin" wrote in message
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: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:23:58 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
: wrote:
:
: I look forward to the statistics.
:
: I am willing to place bets on the following:
: (1) Mailwasher is approximately 95 % effective in identifying spam
: (2) Nearly half your attempted bounces will be rejected because many
: spammers use false addresses.
: (3) The majority of the successful bounces will continue to try to send
: spam.
:
: (4) some innocent victim of her bounces will formally complain to her
: ISP about her spamming, eventually.
:
: In the meantime I have had two genuine messages tagged as spam by my
: ISP, one understandably, the other not and I am starting to get one or
: two spam messages untagged per day.
: --
: Martin

I gave up Mailwasher and other freebies for the same reasons. It tried to
treat as spam my DH's daily bulletin from his running club - he would not
have been a happy bunny. I find it just as quick and easy to delete the
spam without opening them. The majority I (and presumably anyone) can tell
are spam and the others I just have a quick look without opening via
'Properties' etc.
Perhaps I don't get as many as others, but this method takes seconds.

K