On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:38:57PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:31:57PM -0600, wayne wrote: > > > I'm actually getting less spam in my inbox now than I have for years > > and it has been months since I've gotten a false positive. > > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this suggests you do not use your > spam filter to delete spam, merely move it elsewhere. Yes. Sending spam to /dev/null is not intelligent. You can lose important mail which has been tagged as spam by error. > I suppose it could help you out because you would empty your spam > trap less often than you would look at your inbox, but is this > convenience alone enough to warrant a sophisticated spam > detection system? You still have to trawl through it all. But you can do that when you have some spare time. And usually checking the subject or sender is enough. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo@debian.org
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