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Email not sending?When an email is in sent items has it really arrived or are people pretending not to have received them? Page 2 Anti-spam Software These days email is a remarkably effective method of communication. However, as Luke draws our attention to the fact, it is not flawless. While one Internet technology works so well to ensure the delivery of our email other technologies operate on the computers that link the superhighways of cyberspace - to actively block email communications. Spam is no longer processed meat, at least, not for a new generation. Anti-spam software compares emails against a list of suspicious entries - like "Viagra". Then it marks the emails as spam. Like a virtual rubber stamp. As often as not it achieves this simply by prefixing ***SPAM*** to the subject. The anti-spam software might delete or process the email in some other way. Anti spam or junk mail software doesn't work as well as I'd like it to. Voluntary anti-spam As the title suggests these are the mechanisms that we have some control over. Primarily managed from individuals computers this variety of anti-spam allows the end user to configure their own rules as well as predefined "best guess" rules. These methods include the option of whether to simply move the spam into a folder for second thoughts later or take the dramatic step of deleting it (without moving it to a deleted items folder) The latter more draconian method might be appropriate after the teenage son has expressed an unwanted interest in certain websites resulting in your mailbox being plagued by email from xxxbabes.com or some such. However the business man may prefer not to rely on a half baked artificial intelligence to decide to delete that £250K purchase order or not.
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