Where's Wil?

I actually have a friend that greets me on MSN every morning with just this turn of phrase. It invariably prompts me to check my email.

I'm actually not a stunning fan of email, because I think too many people use it as a productivity drain. I don't have a Blackberry (yet), and I've found that this keeps me productive, keeps me working and stops me getting distracted.

Jimmy Wales was on Net at Night this week, talking to Leo and Amber about how bad the spam problem is getting. I know - I get a lot of spam. The great thing is that I just don't see it. Like Dvorak, I get (almost) no spam. What's the system? Well, bit-tech has an Exchange server which has custom rules set up to filter mail by score, using Spirius. This also incorporates Spam Assassin. This then gets forwarded to my Apple Mail client, which also has junk filtering enabled. Whilst my address receives a few hundred junk mails every day, I actually only see less than ten, which is totally manageable in the course of a work day.

I've had friends that say they have even more success using SpamCop. It's an email service with a yearly charge, but consensus seems to be that it's the best personal email service on the net when it comes to dealing with spam. My beef with it is that it's a bit Web 1.0 - it needs an interface upgrade!