TongMaster wrote: > The filters on a centralised server will always be behind current SPAM > trends, as far as I can see because it's more difficult to train than > your local SPAM solutions.
Agreed, but even if the filter on the input to the list only catches 70% of the spam it is still far less wasteful of resoruces (cpu, electricty, people's time) than the current situation. > My main point in short, is that if people kept their own SPAM solutions > working properly, they wouldn't notice the odd one that slips through > SLUG's SPAM processing. It seemed to me that you were advocating that everyone maintain their own spam filter and the list remain unfiltered. I was pointing out that this was a waste of resources. There are also people on this list who receive SLUG mail at a work account where they may not have the tools to filter spam as easily as they could on a Linux system. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." -- Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, Saudi cleric http://www.arabianews.org/english/article.cfm?qid=132&sid=2 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
