[...] > > I am fully capable of deleting spam from my inbox. So why do I use > TMDA when I could just delete the junk? Because deleting spam by hand > is a time-wasting annoyance. I think most people who use TMDA would > agree -- they use it because it significantly reduces the annoyance of > dealing with a mailbox full of garbage. The important point here is > that TMDA doesn't stop spam. Just check your logs. What TMDA does is > stop you having to deal with spam. > > I don't see much difference between scanning a report for valid > messages and scanning a mailbox for valid messages. The amount of > time-waste and annoyance don't appear significantly different to me. > In other words, having to scan a report and release the valid messages > seems to me to completely defeat the one thing TMDA does -- reduce > time-wasting annoyance.
There is a big difference. It has to do with the cost of switching context. I have a report sent to me each morning with a list of the email messages held in the pending area (I have about 20 to 30 each day). I scan that list and look for email that I should let through. Then I manually "accept" each message I am interested in reading (probably one every third day). This is much better than letting the SPAM through to my inbox. With TMDA working this way, I review SPAM only once, when I am ready to focus on the issue. With SPAM hitting my inbox during the day, it is a big distraction and a time waste. I would actually like to take actions w.r.t. TMDA setting directly from the report. If it linked back to TMDA (e.g. via a web server), then I could imagine clicking on a message to release it, put the address in the white list, etc. Randy _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
