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SubjectRe: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts
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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).

Jes
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