Frequently Asked Questions
Death2Spam operates virtually invisibly and is transparent to the user. Our beta testing metrics show that the average time taken to retrieve your mail, check for spam and pass it on to you is about 350 milliseconds for the average-sized email message. In practice, you probably won't notice any difference in download time, especially if your email reader automatically checks for messages every few minutes. You will notice, however, that 99% of the spam will be tossed in the bin!
Absolutely! Death2Spam is simply a pass-through system. All mail (except viruses) is sent to you regardless of its classification. Once you know what type of mail it is, it's up to you to get rid of it (or keep it) as you wish. After you've trained the system for a time, and you're confident that it knows your preferences, you can elect to have any spam "gutted", so you'll only receive the message's envelope containing its subject, the sender, etc. This can save considerably on download time and associated costs.
Death2Spam is an automated Internet Application Service
that requires minimal human intervention. Your email is never read unless you
are experiencing a problem with a particular message, and then only with your
explicit permission, in order to solve the problem.
Except for the classification "tag" that appears in the subject field of some email messages, there are no other visible changes. During beta testing, some additional information will be inserted in the message headers, for performance tuning and diagnostic purposes.
Analysis of tens of thousands of beta-tester messages shows that, on average, Death2Spam identifies viruses, spam, porn and junk mail with better than 99.5% accuracy! In fact, head-to-head comparison testing with other anti-spam products shows D2S to be the most accurate spam-recognition software available in the world!
There are some very compelling reasons for this: a zero storage footprint on your PC (no software is installed); no software upgrades are ever needed (there's nothing to download); you're always using the latest version of the filtering software; you have access to a globally-pooled spam and virus database (incredible accuracy); 100% cross-platform compatibility (works on any PC, Mac, WebTV, etc); and a web-based client interface means you can easily access your account from any PC, anywhere.
No.
You bet! See the instructions on our "Getting Rid of Junk Mail" help page.
Shouldn't a well-trained personal collection be more useful than a large multi-person collection?
Yes and no. The Death2Spam database is currently >99% accurate for the average user. It contains word-probability analysis from a vast number of email messages. And it does the basic job really well, for most people.
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