Posted by
Brian Mury-3 on
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Simple-minded-SPAM-filters-vs-list-participation-tp387641p387647.html
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:25 -0500, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Sorry, but I beg to differ with you. If someone asks me for my help, I do
> not expect to fill out any forms to provide that assistance - and I will
> not.
I agree completely. Those challenge emails are generally considered to
be poor netiquette, and many people will not be bothered to reply to the
challenge (myself included).
There is another issue - what if we are both using this type of spam
blocking? You won't see my email until I reply to your challenge, but I
won't see your challenge until you reply to my challenge in response to
your challenge - so we will never establish communications.
> There are many very good and effective spam filters out there - I use
> Spambayes, and after a very short period of training, I have no false
> positives and all but a very few unsolicited emails are properly classified
> as Junk.
Any form of Bayesian filtering is highly accurate once trained. I use
SpamAssassin, which combines Bayesian filtering with other filtering
methods. I get hundreds of spam a week, but I usually only see one every
few weeks. However, it never flags ham as spam.
My one and only contribution to this off-topic thread, back to playing
with my K2... :-)
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