On -6007-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > What people mean when they say they are fed up with spam, is that they are > fed up with SOME spam, but want to get the others. > > There simply is no way that a "negative" approach will work. The "don't pass" > list is infinite and its characteristics are ever-changing.
True, but the approach seems to work for me. I used to have an inbox filled daily with 10-20 UCEs, and now I get MAYBE 2. > > So they end up spending good money on programs that kill things they would > like to see, and don't kill things they find objectionable, because these > programs are obsolete a week after they are released. SpamAssassin is free, and I wouldn't recommend to anyone that they pay for "no-pass" software. > > To stop spam you have to decide who you WANT to hear from, and dump EVERYTHING > else. > > You cannot accept any mail that doesn't have a valid return address. > Fair enough. > > > > I can't say any of those have landed in my inbox, though ;-) Straight > > to ~/mail/spam with no stops in between. > > > > See? You aren't blocking spam, you are saving mail that MIGHT be spam > to a directory and then reading through it. > No, I don't read through it. But if someone says "Hey, did you get that e-mail I sent you two days ago that was about free credit card long distance porno?" I can be pretty sure where to recover it from. I still rely on other forms of communication to tip me off to the possibility that SpamAssassin marked something it shouldn't have. > Why? Because SpamAssasin doesn't work, and will never work. > It works well enough for me, and quite a few other people. I realize it isn't 100% effective, but I never asked for a magic salve that would make all UCEs go away. > If the headers have been monkeyed with to the point that procmail can't > process it, it goes to /dev/null. Non-conforming headers are a SURE sign > that a mail is spam, because they are trying to get past your filters. > > Which they do, with programs like SpamAssasin. Infrequently, but it does happen. Yesterday I discovered a way that I can have a THREE FOOT PENIS! That's exciting. -- Aaron Bieber - Graphic Design // Web Design http://www.core-dev.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
