Re: Spam fighting

[Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Wojciech Ziniewicz wrote:
>> Personally i get 0-5 spam messages per month from the debian-isp and
>> debian-security list that are not filtered and appear as non-spam messages.
>> Moreover i see that in my spam folder i have like 3-7 spam messages per
>> hour.
>
> I'm 600 short of 100,000 pieces of spam since 26/1/2010. :) This isn't just
> from debian lists, though. It's all-up.
>
> This does not take into account the false negatives. I'm pretty sure I'm
> over 102,000 with those. That may seem a tad high to some but imo a false
> negative is better than a false positive.
>
> On top of this there are 2,300 virus laden emails over the same time
> period.
>
>> What's the problem actually ?
>
> Unrealistic expectations, I'd say.

Forward all mail to a gmail account, then forward back to Debian's
list-servs. Spam problem solved.

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/sarcasm

Arthur.