Spam filtering treatise

MonsieurEvil

<div class="IPBDescription">Brought to you by the hormel corp.</div>An interesting read for programmers specifically, but also for regualr netizens looking to learn more about how to filter unsolicted emails:

<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html" target="_blank">Filtering Spam</a>

Legionnaired

Cool, very ineresting read. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Now, as I am a non-1337 programmer, are there any POP 3 clients that have this sory of fuction built in, or will I have to learn C++ to do such a thing?

richard_of_richardland

I think just filtering out things with "unsucscribe" could remove a lot of spam, as long as you don't actually subscribe to any genuine newsletters.