On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> 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.
I got hit by the results of a lot of spam last week when someone decided
to forge thousands of mail apparently from my mail domain; I was delaing
with the cleanup mess rather than the initial contact so all of the
anti-spam techniques available were causing me more grief as they rejected
mail (and .qmail-default delivered them to me). Since this I much prefer
anti-spam methods which deposit spam into a mail-box which sysadmins can
look at when they get time (in fact this should be a task for a PFY[1]
where they'll learn more about routing mail)
RjL
[1]Pimply faced youth, the sysadmin's sidekick.