Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 23 Jan 2004 03:43:31 -0500 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Ford <david+hb@blue-labs.org> writes:
David> Considering that Bayesian filters are useless against the new David> spam that is proliferating these days, that's laughable. Spam David> now comes with a good 5-10K of random dictionary words.
Well if thats the case, then I wonder why the random word spams stopped getting through my filters after I spent the appropriate time training my Bayesian filters. I must have done something that made the spammers laugh so hard they didn't bother spamming me anymore.
David> If you can't handle clicking on a link to authorize your email, David> then I'm not interested in your email. If that tiny few seconds David> of effort is a waste of your time, then writing your email to David> me was also a waste of your time.
Well now we're getting to the laughable part: by expecting people to 'click on a link you obviously assume that everybody uses a GUI mail client. Guess what, I don't have the patience for that. So guess what, having to launch a web browser and copy-pasting a random link into it in order to send you email makes me uninterested in mailing you in the first place.
David> Getting well over 900 spams a day on average, almost double on David> mondays, just isn't my cup of tea. There is no one solution to David> spam. I pre-filter with spamassassin using all it's tools, David> anything scoring high automatically gets /dev/nulled. Those David> include bayesian, pattern matches, DNSBL, etc. Next I attempt David> to filter viruses and the like. The remainder goes through David> TMDA.
Maybe you should consider using it properly, guess what it does work.
David> Hmm, 900 spams in my mailbox, or half a dozen due to lists. David> I'll take the second.
600 spams in my spambox over the last 48 hours, _1_ in my inbox, guess that speaks for itself.
'nuff said, back to spending time on real issues, such as fixing kernel bugs.
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