On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:25 -0500, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Sorry, but I beg to differ with you. If someone asks me for my help, I do > not expect to fill out any forms to provide that assistance - and I will > not.
I agree completely. Those challenge emails are generally considered to be poor netiquette, and many people will not be bothered to reply to the challenge (myself included). There is another issue - what if we are both using this type of spam blocking? You won't see my email until I reply to your challenge, but I won't see your challenge until you reply to my challenge in response to your challenge - so we will never establish communications. > There are many very good and effective spam filters out there - I use > Spambayes, and after a very short period of training, I have no false > positives and all but a very few unsolicited emails are properly classified > as Junk. Any form of Bayesian filtering is highly accurate once trained. I use SpamAssassin, which combines Bayesian filtering with other filtering methods. I get hundreds of spam a week, but I usually only see one every few weeks. However, it never flags ham as spam. My one and only contribution to this off-topic thread, back to playing with my K2... :-) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
