Eliminate Spam Article:
ChoiceMail Designs Top Cop To Thwart Tricky Spammers
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Spam is the scourge of the Internet, and it may yet kill e-mail as a valuable communications medium. Millions of people have to devote precious time every day to deleting these offensive, deceptive and totally unsolicited marketing pitches from the worst bottom-feeders in all of capitalism.
This crisis has spurred frantic efforts to turn technology against the spammers, by devising methods to automatically identify and delete spam. They haven't been that effective, however, because the spammers soon learn to evade them with fake addresses and misleading text.
Is your junk e-mail out of control? If so, what pitches bother you most? What have you done to stop the flood? See our junk e-mail page, or join a discussion with other readers.
But I can report today some good news in the war against spam. I've been testing an ingenious new antispam program from a small company in New Jersey that can eliminate spam from your e-mail inbox, without stopping any legitimate e-mail.
This program lives on your own PC, never routes your e-mail to a third-party computer and doesn't involve service charges. Its introductory price is $29.95.
The spam-fighting program, called ChoiceMail, is being released today by DigiPortal Software, of Parsippany, N.J. It is available through the company's Web site, at www.digiportal.com. In my tests, it cut my spam to zero.
ChoiceMail doesn't try to identify spam and block it. Instead, it shifts the burden of effort to the spammers, by requiring them to get your permission to deliver the spam. If they don't ask for permission, or if you refuse to grant it, their spam messages are blocked and never appear in your mailbox, period. |
