[plug] Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning (fwd)

[Craig Ringer]

> As a person who receives around 100 spam messages a day, and who has to 
> waste time each day, modifying spam filters, and creating new filters to 
> deal with the mutating spam

Validation of the domains of incoming mail, the use of SpamAssassin, and 
Mozilla as a mail reader make spam something I don't really see anymore.

*beep* you have new mail... no wait, forget that.

Due to the way I handle it, no mail is ever lost or automatically 
deleted either. I just scan down the subjects and From: addresses in the 
spam box every few days, then move it into storage.

I've got most of the staff here storing their spam in a public IMAP 
folder. Why? Because someday, I'm sure it'll be very useful for 
statistical purposes - say, improving mail filters. That's a scary mailbox.

# du -ms /var/spool/imap/public/Junk/
45       /var/spool/imap/public/Junk

> leading to the policy that spammers should 
> be executed, or kneecapped (and the same done to their elbows and 
> wrists), or locked up in a dark room with no modern conveniences, 
> like warmth or light or cooked food, for the rest of their lives, I 
> apparently misconstrued the reference.

Heh. I reserve that kind of hate for script kiddies personally.

Craig Ringer


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