Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:56:10AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> > Thus, my conclusion: These things are evil. Don't use them or somebody
> > might use them against you, eventually.
>
> This sounds vaguely like religion -- you haven't even taken the time to see
> how these filters work yet you are decrying them as "evil".
>
> They happen to be the most effective filtering solution at present,
/dev/null is the most effective filtering solution at present, and these
days happens to be equivalent to these filters when applied to mail from
me.
It's easy to be effective if you don't care about false positives.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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