On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:26:34AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:13:42PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > /dev/null is the most effective filtering solution at present, and these > > days happens to be equivalent to these filters when applied to mail from > > me. > > > > It's easy to be effective if you don't care about false positives. > > Yes, and unless you consider people who either: > > 1) are too lazy to confirm > 2) have a philosophical objection to confirming > > false positives,
I do. If you don't, I guess we have no common ground. Also consider systems like the BTS that send mail; I certainly don't think those confirmations get religiously replied to, although boredom might lead to somebody doing it on occasion. > You're also assuming that the users of such systems don't periodically > check out their pending queue to make sure there isn't any legitimate > mail in there before purging it. Fair point. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]