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    Sarath C
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    Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

    -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

    My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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      Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

      -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

      My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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      Muammar
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      Sarath. wrote:

      These idiots are so clever

      These tomatoes are so potatos:->


      Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight! (\ /) (O.o) (><)

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        Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

        -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

        My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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        Kevin McFarlane
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        Basically, without anti-spam software installed somewhere there's no way of escaping it. I'm sure others will disagree with this though.

        Kevin

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          Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

          -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

          My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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          Now spamfighting tools are equally important as Antiviruses. For a domain, try Barracuda Firewall: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en[^]

          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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            Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

            -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

            My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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            Clickok
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            I use Google Hosted Mail. :)


            Engaged in the learning of English grammar. ;)
            For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:

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            • S Sarath C

              Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

              -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

              My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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              Shog9 0
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              I'm gonna second Clickok's recommendation of Google-hosted mail. Excellent results, with maybe three-four false-negatives a week, and fewer than that many false positives a month. My employer uses Sprint for spam filtering, which also works fairly well - i've yet to see a false-positive from it. That said, these are much less public email addresses. Less useful: whatever's built into Outlook. Nothin' but false positives. Completely useless: whatever Microsoft uses for HoTMaiL. Amazing how much spam i get there, and i don't use that address at all.

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              It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

              --Raymond Chen on MSDN

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                Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

                -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

                My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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                reshi999
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                We use Trend to protect against viruses and spam, has the occasional glitch but is good for the SMB

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                  Recently our company created new mail ID and domain as part of some corporate changes. When I first logged in my account spammers welcomed with their heavy loads of spam. These idiots are so clever :(

                  -Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

                  My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern

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                  Peter Wone
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                  New domains usually have immature configurations which means the chances of getting past defences are high. It's directly analogous to the immature immune system of a baby. Therefore spammers use watch for new domains and specifically target them. After they've been sharing ice-cream with the dog for a while it's much harder to invade. People crap on about the evil of spam but no-one will pay for the real solution, which is basically authenticated send combined with government issued e-stamps. The idea is that you accept unsolicited sources only when someone values your time, storage and bandwidth enough to pay for the privilege. An e-stamp is basically a digital certificate appertaining to the fully formed email. Since this includes your email address AND a send timestamp the e-stamp can only be used once, rather like a regular postage stamp. The point of this is not to provide govts with yet another tax scam, it's to screw up the economics of spam and drive the buggers out of business. That's why I also suggested accepting unstamped mail from known sources - it prevents govts from using this as a revenue gatherer.

                  PeterW -------------------- If you can spell and use correct grammar for your compiler, what makes you think I will tolerate less?

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