On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:19:11 -0400 > Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com> wrote: > > You don't honestly think that they filter out the spam sites to which > > they sell your information, do you? > > Actually, it's a very good spam filter. It, by default, adds headers to > the message (X-Yahoo-FilteredBulk or somesuch). I've received some > fourty thousand mails over my yahoo.ca account; some of them spam. I > have NEVER EVER gotten a false positive from Yahoo's spam > marking/filtering stuff, and it caught about %65 of all spam. That's > pretty god-damned impressive. 65% !? Try spamassassin (debian package available). For me it catches ~ 96%, with < 1 % false positives. -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?
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