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May Winners
Congratulations to William and DeBorah
the May 2016 winners of the 50/50 and door
prizes.
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of a fall, break-in or other emergency. Simply
press a button on the pendant to dial a stored
contact and play you own pre-recorded emer-
gency message. Best of all there are no
monthly fees! The phone features 3—number
speed dial, oversize keys making easy to read
without your glasses, talking dialer keys, digi-
tal clock, indicator LED lights and smartphone.
Phone plugs into an AC outlet. Pendant bat-
tery included.
First Alert Big Button Phone with Safety Pen-
dant sells for $79.99 @ Walmart and Sharper
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Review
MailWasher Free — Version 7.7
Free e-mail filtering software for Windows
Software review by John Langill, Newsletter
Editor, Southern Tier Personal Computer Club
December 2015 issue, Rare Bits
http://www.pageorama.com/?p=stpcc1979
jlangil1 (at) stny.rr.com
Publisher: Firetrust - www.Mailwasher.com
Current Free Version: 7.7 (Pro Version also
7.7)
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Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP,
Vista, 7, and 8 (10? – see article)
Download: MailWasher (Free) -
www.mailwasher.net/
MailWasher is e-mail filtering software for Win-
dows that can detect and delete spam from a
user’s e-mail while it remains on the e-mail pro-
vider’s server; that is, BEFORE it is download-
ed to the user’s computer. This approach is
what makes MailWasher unique among similar
competitive products.
MailWasher uses a combination of user-
defined filters, spam databases, and Bayesian
filtering. The filters work on a small portion of
each e-mail, and then allow unwanted e-mails
to be directly deleted from the user’s POP3 in-
box without them being downloaded to the e-
mail client on the user’s computer. This ap-
proach prevents the downloading of spam and
other messages infected with malware.
Through the use of a Bayesian filter, the more
MailWasher is used the more the program’s
spam detection capabilities improve. By mark-
ing certain e-mail messages as spam, the user
trains this filter to detect spam more effectively
in the future. For example, once MailWasher’s
Bayesian filter learns that most messages con-
taining the word “Drugs” are spam, it will auto-
matically classify e-mails that use the word ex-
cessively as spam in the future.
MailWasher is available in two versions... Free
and Pro. I’ll get to the main distinctions be-
tween the two versions a little later.
MailWasher debuted in 2001 and has been
continually updated and enhanced ever since.
I’ve been using the free version of MailWasher
for well over a decade and I can say — thank-
fully — that I’ve never experienced having a
PC infected by malware transmitted via e-mail
in all that time — knock on wood.
Admittedly, it has required some diligence on
my part; but MailWasher has made the task a
lot easier by enabling me to filter out the spam
e-mail without having it downloaded to my
computer.
There are any number of programs that purport
to automatically filter e-mail and remove spam;
and they may do a fair job. While MailWasher
can and does do much the same, it gives the
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