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[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

SpamAssassin is very cool.

My email address has been published on the web since about
1995. Yes folks, that's 8 years now of being harvested by spambots.
We have SA set up on the server doing only a very, very rough cut.
Frankly it's so rough, I'm amazed at the spam that does get through
sometimes. i.e. I look at it and think "Come on SA, that's surely spam!"

BUT! depsite this I still get more mails per day from Craig Ringer,
or James Devenish (for example) than I do spam...

On top of this, I'm a member of other mailing lists too.

I guess this rant is pointless, all it highlights is that if your life
is arranged such that you already deal with lots of email, spam is less of
a problem than the emails that you asked for, but just don't feel like
reading today. ;)

Oh and that SpamAssassin rocks...


Indy.




On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:05:06PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I must say though that e-mail addresses are already on the web thanks to
> > PLUG list archives. At the moment I am getting about 2 spams a week and
> > which seems to be the amount given for e-mail addresses posted on the
> > web.
> 
> You're lucky. 11 today - and that's a pretty quiet morning. OTOH, 
> mozilla quietly dropped them all into the junk box. Mozilla filtering 
> plays very well with SpamAssassin, as the mozilla filters recognise the 
> X-Spam-Flag: true that I've got SpamAssassin adding. The result is an 
> almost perfect spam catch rate with hardly any false positives. Of 
> course, it also enables the Eudora users to do some primitive spam 
> filtering as well :-)
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 

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Indranath Neogy
<indy at the-tech.mit.edu>