On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:03:08PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Of course a *good* solution (as opposed to a crappy one) will need to be > very sensitive to the problem of false-positives - genuine email mistakenly > thought to be spam. When I wrote "90%" above I meant a 10% false-negative > rate, and a tiny false-positive rate. Again, this isn't rocket science. > It is doable, and if it weren't, I would not have been able to read my > email in the last 5 years.
I have found that one way to cut down on spam is to use spamassian. It gives me about 5-10 false negatives a day. I prefer false negatives, i.e. spam getting through, to false positives, i.e. loosing messages. I cut down the overhead by using a procmail .rc file that places known high volume senders, e.g. yahoo mailing lists directly into my mail box without passing it through spamassian. The person who provides my email runs a very tight antispam system which he acts as an email forwarder and sells his service. I decided not to use it as there were 1-2 messages a day that failed his rules, mostly because one person who emailed me did it from a blacklisted network. To me it was better to have to do the filtering myself as I know what I am doing (those who know me may say otherwise) than have to get angry emails from this one person whom I needed to get regular emails from and refused to "fix" his "broken" system. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 VoN Skype: mendelsonfamily. Looking for work as a CTO or consultant in handheld gaming, large systems development, handheld device construction, etc. See U.S. patent applications 20050108591, 20050107165. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
