| Mike Leone on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:50:30 -0500 |
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Walt Mankowski (waltman@pobox.com) had this to say on 12/28/02 at 01:44: > 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. Yeah, that was a noticeable problem in version 2.20. There have been 3 releases since, tho, and I almost never get mailing list posts inadvertently marked as spam (or any others). It does sometimes miss new spams, which is to be expected, since spammers change their spam all the time, in a deliberate effort to avoid triggering spam-catching rules. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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