I enabled it. And as noted it seemed remarkably ineffective, particularly
as compared to SpamAssassin. I typically get 200 to 225 spams a day. Of
this a few get through with SpamAssassin because I do not use SURBL. So
about 3 or 4 a day sneak through. (It would be more without my custom
jd_mangy_mortgage rules I've been building up for "Mor t gage" "R at e"
spam.) Somebody needs to adapt the antidrug rules technology for anti-
mortgage spam. I'm not clever enough to do that one, I fear.
Anyway, I was seeing 20-30 with the spam blocker turned up to the "low"
setting that is not stupid enough to send "Are you really OK?" messages
to would be email senders. (I write those addresses into my procmailrc
file and dump them to /dev/null. I don't care to correspond to such
cretins. So I don't inflict it on others. They are trying to shift their
personal "wasted time" to someone else. This ain't "right". It's rude.)
There may have been something I missed setting it all up. But I was on
a dialup from Hell at Howard Johnson's outside the Orlando OCCC. Do NOT
go there. Their phone lines appear to work for modem access only during
the day, about 0830 to 1730. Outside those hours connections drop in a
matter of seconds, something I found HIGHLY suspicious. Anyway. that
made investigating setting it up in detail rather difficult.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:37:53 -0800, "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I think Earthlink uses Brightmail. If that is so then Brightmail
> >statistics are VERY bad. I doubt I had any false alarms - lost email.
> >But it only got about 75% or less of the spam. I used it while on the
> >road the last two weeks. I might comment that I was very unimpressed.
>
> Did you enable your filtering?
> I think that you have to enable it first from the Spamminator address.
> It's been ages since I had an Earthlink account, not sure if things are
> the same now.
