Posted by Greg N. on 02/06/06 23:38

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.

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.

> 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.

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