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OK I’m a little nervous.

I turned on knowspam last night. It is an anti-spam service that seems pretty cool and came recommended. Two week free trial period even. So I set it up. You can enter email lists and individuals as known good senders and email lists. You can also designate domain names as OK. Basically, if an incoming email doesn’t fall into one of those categories, knowspam sends them an email saying “please prove that you’re a human by clicking the link in this email and answering a question on the resulting page.” What they have to do is copy four numbers into a box. Once they’ve done that they’re on your “good sender” list. If it’s a bot-generated email, there won’t be anyone home to reply so they get deleted.

So, why am I nervous? I don’t seem to be getting much mail AND I don’t seem to be getting much feedback that there is a lot of spam getting stopped. Hmmmmm. Maybe Sunday isn’t the day to start spam fighting measures? We’ll see.