From: "Len Budney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The key is to try to keep track as much as possible of what is accepted
> > and what is rejected.
>
> Why? To satisfy your curiosity? Or do you then track down all senders of
> legitimate email, and tell them what happened?
>
The reason why I feel that logging of spam filtering is crucial is exatly
that: try to find out how much valid mail you are killing compared to the
number of spam. I definitely want to know what gets rejected by a filter to
fine tune it or remove it if does not satisfy my needs.
> > ...the tolerable lost email / killed spam ratio is somewhat a personal
> > decision...
>
> The tolerable ratio is zero. If you are an ISP and think differently, then
> your customers should abandon you. They might even have grounds to sue
> you. (``The computer threw your job offer away. Sorry.'') They probably
> won't, because they don't understand. (``Oh. Those darn computers!'')
>
Hey, don't flame me. I said this is a personal choice. For my part I don't
filter anything out (yet) because spam is not enough of a problem for me at
this time. The only thing I am pointing out is that the choice of doing spam
filtering is a personal one, and one has to understand that it will kill
legitimate mail as well.
Patrick.
