John Hostler :: Renegade Blog

For the past several months I have felt overwhelmed by spam.  I have been convinced that I get WAY more spam than actual messages I give a shit about.

I’m someone that enjoys being connected (or as my wife would say, “on an electronic leash”) and have my BlackBerry tied to my Exchange server, so I can get my emails anywhere.

The problem is that my BlackBerry (in addition to my inbox) just seems to get stuffed with hundreds of emails with subject lines such as this:

Free veogra pills.!

You are nominated for a Bachelors

Change your entire life with Ultra Allure!

Swiss Branded Watches

I saw Angelina endorse this

And on and on and on and on

Finally, after messing around with the spam settings at the server level, and determining that changing those settings seemed to be filtering out the messages I DID want, I decided to test out spamarrest.

I started on the 30 day free trial, figuring why spend the $29.95 it costs for 8 months (6 + 2 free months), unless I found it to be useful for me.

The results:

I feel liberated and can finally say, “F&*k you spam!” My inbox and BlackBerry are MUCH cleaner and I don’t come back to an inbox littered with hundreds of emails after having spent just an hour with the family.

Have a peek at what spamarrest has done for me over the past 5 days:

F&*k you spam!

Yeah, in just 5 days spamarrest relieved me of over 4000 spam messages that otherwise would have hit my inbox or BlackBerry — driving me absolutely freakin’ NUTS!

Whether you’re getting more spam than me or if you’re getting less… if you’re feeling like there is too much spam in your own inbox these days — I suggest you try this out.

I’ve only put this on 5 of my 20 or so email addy’s and plan to drop $50 to put 10 more of my email addy’s on the account, thus relieving me of even more spam.

Here’s to some peace and quiet;-)

John Hostler