antispam

Friends have been recommending passing my Lockergnome email account(s) through Gmail for effective spam filtering. I spent a while last night setting things up according to their instructions. Essentially, you dive into your Gmail account and set it up to download emails from your regular ol’ POP3 mail provider. It scrubs your account, and you set up your desktop email client to download from pop3.gmail.com rather than your regular ol’ POP3 provider. This is completely FREE for anybody to do.

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A few moments ago, I received a comment notifcation for a post I made a couple of years ago (which must rank well in Google for it to be noticed today). The comment turned out to be spam for An HDTV Reminder. I get hundreds of spam comments every day. In fact, my installation of WordPress claims: “Akismet has caught 227,338 spam for you since you first installed it.” Yikes!

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