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mijango
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Any recommendations? I've tried Spamhiliator but it really is useless and filters mail that is not SPAM and lets through 80% of the SPAM I get. Even when using it's Learning feature, it just remains useless.
I'm getting around 20-30 SPAM mails a day and it's driving me round the bend
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evilmonkeyzz
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Try Mailwasher
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greysts
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And if that doesn't work, change your email address and don't advertise it to all and sundry.
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evilmonkeyzz
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If your getting 30 spam emails a day then you could be better off changing your email address completely, get a fresh start. 
Unless you know for sure that a site is safe then don't give out your email address to them. I don't know how people get so much spam, I have had the same email address for over 5 years and browse the Internet daily and I only get a max of 2 or 3 spam message a month, and even they are filtered out automatically by yahoo! 
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Jonny555
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Loc: Cheshire, England
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It's easy enough to get email accounts, so I just use a couple for the purpose of necessity. If these get spammed then it doesn't matter as nothing important will come to them anyway.
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Madeline
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even they are filtered out automatically by yahoo!
Yes, along with some legitimate mail. That BT Yahoo! spam filter definitely has learning difficulties! BT Yahoo! has a facility called 'Address Guard' which allows you to create up to 500 disposable e-mail addresses which you can dump if you start getting spam. I imagine at least some other ISPs offer something similar.
Madeline. 
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evilmonkeyzz
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Yes, address guard is very good, I use it occasionally when I don't trust the website that I am signing up to. I have never had a problem with the spam filter, never filtered a single genuine email. (Touch wood!)
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Madeline
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Fortunately, it doesn't happen very often that legitimate mail gets put in the Bulk folder. When it does, I add the sender to my Address Book and it doesn't happen again.
Madeline.
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aardvarktechnology
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You could try using Mailwasher. http://www.mailwasher.net/
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Madeline
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I think you'll find that a link to Mailwasher has already been given by evilmonkeyzz in the 2nd post on this thread!
Madeline.
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abbafan1972
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Loc: Birmingham, United Kingdom
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I generally use disposable addresses for sites that I am not sure about.
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Madeline
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Very sensible! I would too if I needed to sign up on a site that I was unsure about, otherwise instant spam and lots of it probably!
Madeline.
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