OT: which to use - email client or web-based email?

[Derek Broughton]

Clayton wrote:

>> Heck, no.  Get a decent mail program.  T-bird users have been begging for
>> years that it properly do "reply-to-list".  Mailman lists all have a
>> header for the List address, which a smart email program will use for
>> replies.
> 
> I used to use KMail which works great on mailing lists, but I became
> so inundated with SPAM on that POP email address that it has become
> all but useless.. literally hundreds and hundreds of SPAM per day

Yeah, I get that.  The bogofilter filter gets rid of almost all of it.
> 
>>> Best of all, it's SPAM management is second to none.
>>
>> It's _good_.  Second to none?  I think my filtering with bogofilter is at
>> least as good.
> 
> Well.... the GMail SPAM filter traps virtually 100% of the SPAM that
> email address receives.  I use SpamAssassin and Bogofilter on my POP
> email address, and combined they trap maybe half... if that of the
> hundreds of messages per day.  I have gone through the motions of
> attempting to train the filter, but I didn't see much improvement -
> granted I didn't spend much time with it... on the other hand I have
> to do nothing at all to get GMail to trap SPAM... GMail is the easy
> way out :-)

I'm never sure about GMail.  Almost all my (real) mail comes through gmail,
via pop.  I still trap hundreds of spams via bogofilter, but I haven't
analyzed how much of that came through gmail and how much though my ISP.
-- 
derek