On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:05:57AM -0500, John Buttery wrote: > > > >blacklisting adds 100 to the score. All you really have to do is set > >your procmail rules so that mails with a score over 90 are sent to > >/dev/null, and mails with less are sent to your spam folder. Then you > >get pretty much the best of both worlds. > > OK, this should have been its own thread a long time ago. :) > > Anyway, just out of curiosity, how come you guys aren't using TMDA? > Just haven't found it yet, or...? > Probably because it's useless for quite a number of people.
Much of my incoming mail is in response to enquiries I send out to trade suppliers and small businesses. If I implemented TMDA they would have to jump through hoops to get their response to me, it's difficult enough getting a response from some people anyway so I suspect that TMDA would reduce the reply rate to negligable proportions. The alternative of modifying the TDMA 'whitelist' when I send the enquiry out is similarly flawed (I have to jump through hoops) and anyway isn't guaranteed to work as they may not respond from an address I know about. Only a very small proportion of my (wanted) incoming mail is from people/addresses that are known to me, a 'whitelist' would catch a tiny proportion of my mail. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
