> To end with a silly note, Declude JunkMail has a ROUTING test that detects
> over 30% of spam (it looks for poor Internet routing that is common to
> spam).  After accounting for one person with 80 posts to the IMail forum
> that failed the ROUTING test, it would have a false positive ratio of just
> .3%.  If we blocked all E-mail failing just the ROUTING test, we wouldn't
> receive any E-mail from one of the main supporters of the single test
> system.  :)  Even sillier, he would consider that a 0% FP ratio if he did
> not find some way to reach us to complain.

And all of _his_ mailing list messages fail the same test.  Whitelisting was
required to see his messages (and many others that hit this and the declude
lists, due to objectionable content and attached spam), since we hold for
review on the routing test (and seldom see other legit messages that fail
the test, the few that are are requeued).

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