On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 20:08, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Popovitch <[email protected]> writes: >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 19:31, Stephen Gran <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> No, Russ implied that reality occasionally intrudes on fantasies of >>> spam-free inboxes. > >> Russ stated: > >> It's unlikely to get substantially better than it is (I believe >> we're already rejecting something like 95% of the incoming mail), so >> if it's still not good enough for you, you should probably consider >> unsubscribing. > >> I beleive that 99% is achieveable, and I believe his final >> "unsubscribe" sentence is akin to walking away from the problem. > > Rejecting 99% of the incoming mail would be very bad if 5% of the incoming > mail were legitimate. I meant exactly what I said: Debian rejects > something like 95% of the incoming mail to the mailing lists according to > the latest message from the listmasters. If I'd meant that we reject 95% > of the *spam*, I would have said that.
Well, there are two ways to read what you originally wrote, and since the thread discussion was on rejecting spam I took your 95% statement to mean d.o was blocking 95% of spam. I beleive d.o can (and should) attempt to block 100% of spam. You did say the part about "unsubscribe". -Jim P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
