[Rhodes22-list] What Gives? - Spam Filters

[Robert Skinner]

John, et al.,

When I brought Vista into the house, the dogs howled, the toilets
backed up, and the flowers wilted.  And I am now committed to
and using OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, and Firefox as the basic
capabilities, with Gimp and others as the second wave.

I was able to migrate my email address lists, folder structure, filters,
and 7 years of email history from Netscape to Thunderbird, and
extensive bookmarks and their folder structure from Opera to
Firefox.

I am happy to report that information gleaned from the traffic on
this list contributed greatly to the choice of program packages that
serve as the basis of liberation from MS and preparation for a leap
to LINUX.

The next major phase of this transmogrification is the use of a
virtual machine package to divorce applications from a direct
dependence on Vista.

Excelsior!  And thank you all,
/Robert
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John Lock wrote:
> At 04:31 PM 7/14/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>   
>> The fun began when I found that I had to actively disable the
>> heuristic spam filters in the email package.  After a few hours
>> trying to tune the email spam checker, I decided to disable it
>> all together.  John's point is substantiated - at least in my case.
>>     
>
> It's a shame that Vista is being crammed down our (Windows users) 
> collective throats.  It's just about the same as installing a virus 
> willfully on your machine.
>
> For Windows e-mail I strongly recommend Thunderbird.  It's free and 
> the spam filters (once trained) are very, very good.  If you gotta 
> change e-mail software anyway, cut the MS cord and get something 
> really useful - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
>
> P.S. If your feeling adventurous, try the Eudora 8.0 beta 
> software.  That's the beginnings of the planned merge of Eudora and 
> Thunderbird.  You can read more at http://www.eudora.com/betas/
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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