> Is one of the criteria for filtering the number of recipients? It would seem
> so, as 3 of my friends recently mailed me a change of address, and bcced the
> mail to a large number of their correspondents. All three mails straight to
> the Trash...
Based upon my experience, I'd say that the number of recipients is taken
into consideration.
However, in the scenario that you describe, you're not encountering that
behavior. When a large number of people are bcc'd, there are no visible
recipients. So it's not the number that's at issue.
Messages with no listed recipients are suspicious.
Messages in which you are not listed as a recipient are also suspicious.
> Emailer used to have the possibility of entering "spam" domains directly
> into the filter. I had a file containing over a thousand of them which I
> found on the Net- and I believe this kind of file is readily updateable on
> the Net too. It worked very well - nothing much got through...
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> I'm not a fan of the current solution - it doesn't work well. And I'm sorry,
> but no amount of Applescript etc workarounds will do, really. IMHO it needs
> rethinking completely.
I think if you crank the sensitivity all the way up, you add your work
domain to the exception list, you define the mailing lists to which you
subscribe, and you spend a week or so adding the people with whom you
regularly subscribe to your address book, that you'll find that 95+% of the
spam is appropriately tagged.
> Your views?
In my view, you're pretty much flat wrong. But that's just my view. ;-)
So far as I can tell, you've essentially turned a feature which, out of the
box, works reasonably well for 90+% of the user base into a feature which
requires "thousands" of entries and constant care and feeding...and you
think this is "better"?
If you really want to know what I think...I think that spam filtering is a
job best done on the server. That there is an infrastructure in place
already that allows people to "vote" on what is and isn't spam and that you
can subscribe to particular users', machines', and/or domains' opinions and
have those opinions be used as automatic filters for your mail. But I'm not
yet aware of any IMAP/POP clients that are directly tied into that
functionality.
mikel
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