So people have asked me about my mail filtering. I use Mailblocks but they haven’t been offering anything since AOL bought them. I thought they were supposed to have offered something by now (at least to AIM users) but I haven’t seen anything yet. But I’ve found a similar service called SpamArrest and they’ve got this nice little demo that explains the service (it’s always hard to explain). It looks like they have more storage than Mailblocks (1GB vs. 100MB) but I’m not sure if they automatically authenticate outgoing mail addresses automatically. It’s got a thirty day free trial (I can almost promise you won’t give it up if you get spam) which people won’t even know you switched services (unless you give them one of the spamarrest addresses). Have I ever led you wrong with a technology tip?!?
*I am an affiliate of this service. So while this isn’t a paid advertisement It’s not the normal mentioned that I give for products I love or future products I want. The problem is they don’t offer the service I use anymore (but they didn’t kick me off either) so I’m mentioning this similar competitive one. I do benefit if you buy via this link but that’s no different than many of the links that I offer that pay me a referral kickback affiliate fee.
Mailblocks R.I.P.
Mailblocks, the best e-mail web service out there is now shutting down. I’m very sad at this, they used CAPTCHAs to make sure you weren’t getting spam and they made e-mail managment more than bearable. Mailblocks gave you extra addresses that you could…