Buh bye, Spam, buh bye.

I get a LOT of spam at work. I've had my work email address for six years, and it's pretty easy to guess, based on my first name. Our IS department, who I've loathed in the past, turned me on to Spamnet by Cloudmark yesterday, and so far it's managed to catch most of my spam. Spamnet is a plugin for Outlook (Outlook Express not supported... yet) that watches incoming mail for spam.

To give you an idea of how much spam I get - since I installed it about noon yesterday (it's 5:30am here right now), I've received 102 emails, and 73 were spam that were caught.

Spamnet allows you to block spam that it doesn't catch, and then it'll send the contents of the spam up to Spamnet's servers to be added to a database so that all of the 330,000+ users of Spamnet will have better coverage.

The installation went flawlessly, the integration with Outlook is great, and it's very good at its job. Finally, I don't have to use my own half-assed Outlook filter. Hoo ray!