On 11 Jan 2005 at 6:40, Phil Daley wrote: > At 1/10/2005 08:01 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: > > >> The red flag is there to keep us from plunging over that abyss. >> > > >You're verging on conspiracy-nut territory here. It simply sounds > like >your ISP is doing a very bad job at filtering spam. > > I agree. Of the 500 email spams I get a day, 495 are filtered out by > my ISP.
I get 250-300 email messages per day, of which 200-250 are correctly filtered as spam by my SpamAssassin proxy. > BrightMail is a very good spam detector with NO false positives (at > least that has been my experience for over 2 years. Do you review the 495 filtered emails you get every day to be sure that there are no false positives? How long does that take? How accurate do you think you are in identifying them? There really is *no* difference between your situation and mine (except a factor of 2 difference in spam volume), but you seem *happy* to review 500 spam messages every day to check for false positives. I am extremely *unhappy* to be required to do that, as I am simply not able to be accurate in picking the jewels out of the crap. That's why I'm transitioning to new email addresses and considering challenge/response as a way of protecting at least *some* of me email addresses, because I just don't have time to waste trying to pay attention to what is mostly junk to determine if there are any false positives. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
