If you use Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client then chances are you're as upset as I am about the lack of effectiveness with the spam filter. Well, as everyone knows, most spam filters need to be trained. Here is the method that I used to train my spam filter VERY EASILY and without having to sort out anything. The first step I made was the create a new email account (prefferably a free one) that support POP3/SMTP -- I chose GMail. Note: Give it an easy to recognize name. For example, junkonly@gmail.com. Step two, is to add your new account to Thunderbird (most email servers' websites will have instructions). Step three, create a Message Filter for your new account and set it to do as follows: 1. Match any of the following 2. [To] [is] [your_new_email_address] 3. [Set Junk Status to] [Junk] 4. [Move Message To] [either a new folder or an existing folder] -- I created a new folder and had it move there. Add any additional steps if you choose to. This automated message filter will train your spam filter VERY EASILY and RAPIDLY provided that you give your NEW email address if/when you have to sign up for something that you KNOW you'll receive spam for. Like, mailing lists, newsletters, etc. Personally, I signed up for as many mailing lists as I could find and gave my new address just so that I got flooded with spam and trained my spam filter as fast as possible. Good luck. Any questions or problems and you can feel free to ask me. -- Jesse

Okay, so in 2001 I created a project on SourceForge.net called "SyberCorp Software". I didn't really do much with it until 2005-2006, in which time I wrote a program called "Windows Product Key Viewer". After roughly 30 revisions (minor versions) I decided that I was going to turn the software into shareware and try to make some money off of it. After about a week straight of coding to implement a custom designed registration method I went to close the project on SourceForge.net only to find out that the site administrators wouldn't LET me. Going back and forth with them through numerous emails and forum posts about how I was the one that created the software and put in all the time, and explaining that I had turned the software into shareware (customers would have to buy it) they still refused. Their reasoning was that I initially posted it on their site and now it's their software. So, I pleaded -- why would anyone BUY my software if they could simply visit SourceForge.net to download an open-source copy of it for free -- no response. I took action. I logged into the project as an administrator and removed ALL of the files. About 2 days later I go the project page to check something else only to find out that I have been removed as the project administrator and ALL of the files from EVERY release have been recreated from their backups. I'm writing this in hopes that others will take action via words on forums and posts to SourceForge.net about their actions and that everyone out there with a project hosted on their site reads this before they run into a similar issue. All comments are welcome and wanted. Let me know what you think.