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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:05:53 -0800, Larry <lweak@nospam.charter.net> 
wrote:

Rob you mentioned some reporting programs.  Can you give me an idea about
costs?? Kind of a fixed budget if you know what i mean.

I don't spend any money on mail type things.  DCC, Pyzor, Razor2... 
they're all free, although I don't know how one would go about 
implementing them on a Windows system, especially if you're just using 
your mail client to grab mail from a server via POP3 or IMAP.  Same with 
SpamAssassin.  All those are licensed under some OSS compatable license 
as far as I know.

SpamCop.net, AFAIK, is free to send spams to.  I've never used it, 
myself.  I think you can set up an account so you can just forward the 
spams to them (rfc/822 [attached] forwards, not inline forwards) and not 
have to worry too much about it beyond that.

The best way to battle spam, really, involves running your own mail 
server... but that relies upon you having a reasonably consistent 
Internet connection (you should be online most of the time, but it can 
work if you're only online for four or five hours every four days) and 
your ISP allowing such things.  So many ISPs these days don't let people 
run servers, for whatever reason.  I'm lucky enough my ISP gives out 
static IP addresses and has no AUP I need to live by.  :-)

-- 
Rob                                |  If not safe,
Email and Jabber:                  |    one can never be free.
     athlonrob at axpr dot net     |
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