On Sat, 30 May 2009 00:26:02 +0300, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Simen Kjaeraas" <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:op.uun3kgep1hx...@biotronic-pc.osir.hihm.no...
Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Manfred Nowak" <svv1...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:xns9c197a654df6dsvv1999hotmail...@65.204.18.192...
At least a quarter of the last postings here do not follow the usenet
convention of proper identifying the author---which is the full name
of
the author and a valid email adress of the author.
Are you kidding me? There isn't a chance in hell I'd put a valid email
address for myself on a newsgroup posting. "Hey bots! Please spam me!".
I'm doing it. Mostly 'cause of gmail's filter being good. I think two
spam messages have made it past it since I got the account, some 4 years
ago. 'course, if you got a crappy mail provider, it might not be as good
an idea.
I've tried a number of filters over the years, even popular and
highly-respected ones, but never found one that didn't give me both
false-positives and false-negatives. The way I do things now, despite
having
no filters, I also have no spam at all and (naturally) no valid messages
accidentally being rejected. So I see the filters as little more than
clumbsy bandage-appoach.
Offline (stand-alone) filters can't stand up to filters maintained by a
multi-billion-dollar company, powered by instant user feedback and
analysis from millions of accounts (I'm talking about the "mark as (not)
spam" buttons). Did you know that Gmail actually scans image attachments
with OCR? (The Viagra spammers started sending e-mails with some
markov-chain-generated body and the actual advertisement on a generated
picture).
A few years ago I was also paranoid about leaving my e-mail address in
plain text on the web, until I noticed that D's Bugzilla doesn't attempt
to hide them (I even filed a ticket about this, which got closed a year
later or so). Today I get over 1000 spam e-mails per month, out of which
about one or two gets past the filter.
By the way, you can set up Gmail to retrieve mail from your other inbox
(assuming you don't use some webmail-only service like Yahoo) and pass it
through its spam filter.
--
Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:thecybersha...@gmail.com
