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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/07/06 02:03
Greg N. wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> My Mozilla mail the spam filter is 'trained' by you and I have found
>> it very effect, better than Norton's (which I disabled) and the ones
>> use by my ISP and hosting company...I rarely ever get a false positive
>> (two or three messages over the years) and more than say 80% gets
>> flagged and moved to junk.
>
>
> How can you possibly know? Are you saying you check all your spam for
> false positives? If you have time to do that, you don't really have a
> spam problem.
Yep, I try to do it fairly regularly, every other day, On my personal
account which is oldest a couple of hundred a day.
I sort by subject and then by sender and it is easy to block delete
obvious spam. Same subject from different senders and vice versa.
Sort by subject and anything with words like "pen1s" or "Rolex watches"
(at least for me) can be dump without further thought. What is left just
takes a quick scan...
> In real life, there is no practical way to check the spam for false
> positives. In effect, the more agressive you set your spam filters, the
> more often you'll be losing good mail. And you have no way of telling.
>
The training feature works pretty good with my experience, my subscribed
lists do not get mark as spam but most of the new spam adverts do...
>> Face it, if you want folks that you do not already know to contact
>> you, your going to get spam. I get junk mail in my mail box (snail
>> mail), if I take it down or hide the box it *will* prevent the junk
>> mail but I wont get my mail either! It's life!
>
>
> If you mean by that, give up on spam prevention, rely solely on spam
> filtering, I couldn't disagree more.
>
Well, what do you suggest? Your email will be out there if you use it
and if any else uses it! You can do all you want to conceal your email,
but once someelse sends you something via your email it is on more than
just your computer, computers that you have *no* control over. My spam
prevention is I that don't do the poker and porn sites, don't use
spyware "free" utilities and toolbars and MSIE that allows drive-by
installs. But I have had websites for years been in usenet and forums
for longer. That is my real name and personal email there that I have
had since the mid 90's (the email not the name I have had that longer!)
once in a while someone will reply to me instead of the group, but hey!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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