Comments on: Knowspam is shutting down

By: louise

louise — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:28:46 +0000

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By: louise

louise — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:28:32 +0000

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By: donna

donna — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:31:06 +0000

Thanks Bill. My host does have a good spam filter, but I still get enough through. A long while ago I set up my email account so it only accepts messages to valid addresses - you are right - without that I’d be swamped.

By: Bill Harper

Bill Harper — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:34:08 +0000

Does your web host provide any form of spam filtering? I’ve recently switched hosts, and now I’ve got SpamAssassin working for me, which has cut down my 200+ spam emails a day (yes, a day!) to about a dozen or so.

Another thing to be wary of: you might be copping a lot of spam email that isn’t being addressed to you, but to some random email account with your domain name on the end (e.g. ewthe@maadmob.com.au). By default your account might be set up to forward these to your email address. That was happening to me, and then I found a way to send them directly to the bit bucket (although CPanel calls it the black hole). That cut out around 80% of the spam I was getting right off the bat.

By: Livia Labate

Livia Labate — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:27:40 +0000

Don’t use Cloudmark Spamnet. The software ia half-good and their customer service is half-bad. Plus they bill you without asking.

By: donna

donna — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:52:06 +0000

From a trackback on this post, I found something better. Spamarrest has the same functionality (whitelist/blacklist), plus a webmail system and a *far* better interface:

http://spamarrest.com/

It covers up to 3 email addresses on one account as well, which ends up a lot cheaper for me

By: jefflash

jefflash — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:15:53 +0000

I’m a knowspam user as well, actually inspired in part by Donna, and sad to hear it’s shutting down.

The service is based on a pretty simple whitelist/blacklist, but the nice thing is that I am able to use it with my existing email address. Yes, I have a gmail address, and I can change the “reply to” to be whatever I want, but everything still comes “from” something @gmail.com. So, if I’m already in other people’s whitelists with my current address, and I send something to them from gmail, it will get caught or possibly incorrectly recognized as spam.

The other nice thing about knowspam is that you can turn the notification off, which is what I do. So, if you email me, and you’re not on my whitelist, you don’t get an automated reply — the email is “held” until I approve or reject it. It’s nice because, to the sender, this process is transparent, and it’s much quicker for me to go through the “held” emails once a day than try to pick them out of my inbox. Plus, for every email I reject, it adds it to my blacklist.

I haven’t found anything yet to replace it, Donna, but if I do I’ll let you know (and vice versa, please!)

By: donna

donna — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:59:40 +0000

Thanks Ben, that looks good. I remember looking at it when I originally found knowspam. I liked the community aspect but use Pegasus Mail and Thunderbird.

Anyway, I have found something that looks good:
http://spamarrest.com/

By: Ben Cannon

Ben Cannon — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:49:11 +0000

Use CloudMark’s SafetyBar: http://www.cloudmark.com/

It is driven by a peer-to-peer community of users who identify and block spam collectively. here’s how it works:
http://www.cloudmark.com/products/safetybar/howitworks/

I tried *many* other spam solutions before finding this one and it has worked the best. I love it!

By: donna

donna — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:58:21 +0000

Actually, the only people that knowspam affects are those who I have never recieved email from before. So when I set it up, I added my entire address book and all of my lists.

Sorry I have a spam problem! How about you come around and filter through my couple of thousand spams a week to look for the useful emails. Why should I have to set up multiple email addresses. I want one email address, and I want to be able to tell people what it is. Knowspam helped me to manage that, with very, very little impact on anyone else.

By: Michael Andrews

Michael Andrews — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:49:04 +0000

Donna

Knowspam is very annoying. I got a knowspam notice from you. Sorry you have a spam problem, but consider the inconvenience to people sending you emails, especially those on mail lists.

I would encourage you to use different addresses for different priority emails, and filter the email with your own tools, rather than ask others to do extra work.

By: allura ellington

allura ellington — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:23:27 +0000

Guide to Spam Arrest for Knowspam.net refugees

Former knowspam.net users: this guide is for you. You’ll be able to take all of your existing whitelists and blacklists…

By: English

English — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:35:28 +0000

Shortlist of indispensable IA tools

There’s been much talk lately in the IA mailing lists about tools: which do you use, what are their shortcomings / advantages, that sort of thing. With yesterday’s news of the Macromedia acquisition, I’ve been thinking about the tools…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:02:24 +0000

The gMail thing works because all incoming mails are filtered through a very very good spam filter (think of all those people out there using gmail all contributing to washing the emails). I’m impressed with it, even though the spam folder (which auto-deletes files over time) gets filled faster than any other these days. It is *rare* something slips through, and I use it everyday and usually gets bucketloads of spam. Let me know if you need an invite.

By: eric scheid

eric scheid — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:04:25 +0000

I used spamsieve on my laptop to filter the mail I receive.

Damn good.

http://c-command.com/spamsieve