On 2003/9/24 7:13, chris wrote: >This is alas, a casualty of spam filtering. Its why I held out as long as >I could before I started doing filtering on my own mail servers. I didn't >want to loose legit traffic. > >But even I have thrown in the towel on my idealism, and have started >doing server level spam filtering. >
Just to share my own experience. I too was worried about this, but initially, my ISP set up server filtering, and I started to use it, despite it's clunky interface, and after not more than 5 interventions or so, adding and deleting a few filters, it was surprisingly accurate and remains so, and I'm happy not to have to download those msgs. I check it quickly usually once a day for any false positives and they are pretty rare, with most of the remaining avoidable if I take the time to do another intervention and add them as good to the top of their filtering list. However, although the ISP's filter works pretty well, it doesn't come close to catching all the spam, so I finally loaded SpamSieve, and that's doing a great job of filtering all the downloaded spam, with very reliable results, that keep getting better as I train it. With the new version 2, I dumped my old training log and started from scratch, and I've been astounded at how good it is right from the start, and I haven't bothered to train it by selecting batches of good and bad msgs, and instead just run the "Add Good" or "Add Spam" script whenever it gets it wrong. It's catching all the spam by and large, but has let a small number of good msgs slip in, but that's because I haven't trained it at all, but once I run the script, it doesn't get fooled anymore. It learns very quickly. So I'm sold on these programs. Haven't tried any of the others, but selected SpamSieve as it had gotten one of the better reviews. There's a review of the new version in the current TidBITS. I just set up a Mail Action which runs AFTER the actions to send mail to folders (since mail addressed to EmailerTalk, for example, normally is not spam). The action says if From or Reply To is in the address book, not to apply actions. Then I prefer Colorizing (rather than moving to a Spam folder), and have renamed one of my priorities as Spam (not necessary but nice), and hit the priority column and can run through and delete them in a jiffy. Alicia Alicia Gordon Gordon Word Artists French and Spanish Translation ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
