Re: anti-spam filter (was T-1 Question...)

[Phil Groschwitz <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

I often get close to 100 spam messages a day.  And I'm
not talking about junk mail from real businesses.  I'm
talking real spam - the same message multiple times
but the from account varies, often by one or two
characters.  Usually they're from japan or russia but
the actual domain doesn't exist of course.

I could easily miss a post

Phil

--- bmorris@ca.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:24:58 -0600
> >From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
> >
> >With a few simple rules (triple !). the words F R E
> E,
> >M I L L I O N A I R E, 1 6 8 1
> > ...
> > My filter removes about 30 spam messages per day.
> 
> Leif, is it really worth possibly missing some
> "good" messages
> just to save deleting 30 spam messages?  As a human,
> you can
> accurately delete 30 spam messages just from the
> titles in a
> couple of seconds.  Although maybe your filter just
> moves them,
> otherwise how did you even know that you missed the
> message with
> the three !s?
> 
> Just imagine all the wonderful discussions of RPG's
> F R E E
> opcode that you are missing!*5 :-)
> 
> Trying to get people to change their natural writing
> style
> so their messages get through filters seems like a
> losing
> proposition to me.
> 
> (I've never used any anti-spam measures beyond
> ignoring it,
> and I get around 2 - 5 spams a day.  Usually I
> delete them
> without even really noticing I'm doing it.)
> 
> Barbara
> 
> 
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