Latest Update: SpamButcher 2.1b  
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 Cutting Edge Spam Elimination Shouldn't I be reporting spam to spammer's ISPs, not just filtering it out? By all means - report spam if you enjoy doing so - but have realistic expectations about how this will actually stop spam. Tracking the real source of spam can be tricky. Spammers employ countless tricks to hide the actual source of the email. Frequently an innocent bystander ends up getting harassed by their ISP about something they didn't do. Free Download - Click Here to Get SpamButcher! Spammers fully expect their accounts to get deleted. It's not as if it's hard to get another one. Think about how many different sources you get spam from. At most, how many do you think you could get shut down? How much spare time do you have? Is your priority protecting yourself from spam, or trying to solve the larger problem? In reality, reporting Spam probably won't do much to solve your spam problem. Using effective client-side anti-spam software like SpamButcher will. Will new anti-spam laws ever control the spam problem? New laws may help reduce spam - but will certainly not solve the spam problem. Making something illegal does not necessarily make it go away - consider the war on drugs. Shouldn't my ISP handle my spam problem on the server? There are a number of problems with server side spam filtering. The main one is that you never know what you're missing - your ISP's spam killer may delete important messages without you ever knowing. With a client side email filtering solution users can monitor what mail is getting filtered, and easily restore accidentally intercepted messages. The best strategy seems to be for ISP's to use "conservative" black lists - blocking spam from just servers that they know are responsible for large amounts of spam and little legitimate email. End users can then employ a client-side spam stopper to eliminate remaining spam. What about "opting-out"? Most of the spam I see has a link to unsubscribe... Never, ever respond to spam in any way. You never opted in for it, and they won't let you opt out. A spammer might take you off one of their lists, but once they know your address is good - they'll often sell it to another spammer as "validated". Opting-out will in the long run do nothing to get rid of spam, you will likely get you more unwanted email, not less. For that matter - never click on a link in a piece of spam. Doing so is enough to confirm your email address. Some spam even employs tricks to validate your email address just by viewing it. Using one of many effective spam blockers to filter these messages out before they get in your inbox, SpamButcher solves this problem. Why is it called Spam? No one's absolutely sure, but it's popularly believed to be from the Monty Python 'Spam' skit. | 
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