Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 22 Jan 2004 08:24:34 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Zan" == Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> writes:
Zan> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:40, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:44:37 +0000, Mike Fedyk wrote: > What do you >> think about individual email (non-list) using a confirmation > >> based spam blocking system. >> >> for personal email it is plain asocial. it tells me that a person >> does not want to receive mail from me.
Zan> For me, that isn't what it says at all. It tells me that he or Zan> she is tired of receiving and sorting all of the spam every day. Zan> Since I feel exactly the same way about spam, I cooperate and Zan> reply with a confirmation.
I've had people pull the authentication game on me before. I just stopped replying to them, waste of my time.
Fixing the spam problem is a lot easier without losing contact with all your friends in the proces:, train your Bayesian filters and be done with it. Mine were a mess, deleted all the data and fed 10 days of spam and some proper mail through sa-learn. Since then I have seen 1 spam make it through during the last week, it used to be 20-40/day (and some 200-300/day caught by the filters).
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