FoRK and Spam..

Gary Lawrence Murphy garym@canada.com
18 Mar 2002 14:13:22 -0500


SpamAssassin can be configured to be less sensitive: I find a setting of
6 to yeild far fewer false positives.

That you get false positives at all is an excellent example of why I
am opposed to ISPs secretly using far less intelligent spam filtering
that routes to the bit-bucket.  

For my own use, SpamAssassin only catches about half the spam I
receive.  I get about 5-10% spam:mail per day, and it gives about 5%
false positives, usually from opt-in mailing lists or from highly
marketing-speak obsessed PR goons who write the subscriber list
announcements for services like my Bell ExpressVu satellite TV.

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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)