The Misterblue email address has been around for nearly 10 years so it's on every spam list imaginable -- I get between 100 and 200 pieces of spam a day. I've been using Spammunition as my Outlook spam filter. I've really liked it. It's a Bayesian filter and one just moves spam into a folder, add the people you know are good to a 'white list' and it trains itself and after that, nearly all spam is moved into the spam folder as new mail arrives. There have been very few false positives (I once had a problem exchanging email with my doctor -- we were discussing my prescriptions and that was too close to spam'ness).

Spammunition is free, but that also means that the developer can wander off to other projects. He seems to have done just that after getting married last year. It's now starting to crash every now and then and it's beginning to suffer from bit rot.

So, it's time to get another filter. A quick Google shows the following choices:

And I'm sure there are many more.

So, what have you tried? What works for Outlook (besides throwing it out the window)?

On the first day of spring, I thought I'd visit our Japanese Garden here in Portland, Oregon USA. There wasn't much in bloom -- only the camilias and the cherry trees. But it was a nice day (in the 50s) and a wind through the evergreens drowned the city noise and made the garden a far off land. More pictures are online.

Other parts of the nation are getting snow today, but, here in Oregon, the cherry trees are in bloom and flowers are sprouting up everywhere. There aren't leaves on the trees yet, but the trees are thinking about it.

I think I'll go to the Japanese Garden this weekend to see the cherry trees in bloom.

Since I've been back to work, I haven't been blogging much -- working at my computer after a day of working at a computer doesn't have the appeal it used to have. But I am recovering and, except for various pains in my rib cage (seems it doesn't like being ripped open), I'm pretty much back to normal operation just 8 weeks after having my body opened up and my heart stopped.

I've been granted new life. Outside it's spring and the birds are singing for new life. The sun is shining and the plants are starting to bloom. Looks like today will be the first lawn mowing of the year.

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