| Walt Mankowski on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 02:01:07 -0500 |
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:14:32PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > No, but it's getting there. That's why, for now, I am diverting spam to > a folder rather than deleting it right away. I figure that if mail gets > accidentally bounced, I can write to the sender when I empty the spam > folder, and straighten it out. That would be much easier than manually > bouncing all of the true spam. Sounds great, until you automatically bounce that legitimate, though spam-appearing, email from, say, a potential employer or a conference you want to attend... :-) When I tried out spamassassin I discovered that certain mailing lists had a large number of false positives. For example. on technical discussion lists (such as this) people often post messages with subjects in all caps because it happens to be the name of some piece of hardware they're trying to get work. If you start bouncing that sort of mail, you'll find you're suddenly getting unsubcribed from these lists because the mailing list software thinks your email address is bouncing. Walt Attachment:
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