How Whitelist & Blacklist Fight Spam?
Posted by: pin on: 17 Jan, 2008
I have came across friends who subscribe to third party Spam filtering service by routing their email to a Spam filtering server before arriving at one’s mailbox. Why one should pay more when this is actually part of email hosting service providers’ responsibility to keep Spam away? And, you have just created a new bottleneck between sender and you!
More than 500 Spam mails come to my mailbox everyday. Out of this, 80% of them are filtered automatically before even reaching my mailbox. The rest of them are moved to the Spam folder in my Webmail.
On and off, I login to my mailbox and Whitelist’ those emails which are not Spam. After weeks of whitelisting, I hardly find any legimate email landed in this Spam folder.
I am a Outlook Express supporter. I use and live with Outlook Express after my first email. Before downloading my email from the mailbox server, I have practised a habit to login to Webmail and Blacklist’ those email which could be Spam! In fact, after few weeks of blacklisting, I have getting lesser Spam mails nowadays!
