On 1/17/2011 8:49 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
<b282be35b5a4494894d4ecfba2bf7847180c7f0...@xch-nw-17v.nw.nos.boeing.com>,
on 01/15/2011
at 05:45 PM, "Schwarz, Barry A"<barry.a.schw...@boeing.com> said:
What happened to the common and effective advice - If you receive
spam, hit delete and move on.
To every complex question there is an answer that is simple, obvious
and wrong. As Allan Sherman said, "Good advice costs nothing and it's
worth the price." That advice may be common, but it is not effective.
It is only good advice for those that do not have the skills to
determine the complaint addresses and whose providers do not have a
mechanism for reporting spam for blocking purposes.
On the other hand, some email providers are over-ambitious
in their blocking. I'm leading a tour to Japan this fall
and when I send emails to the group there is a high
probability those with an email address of @comcast.net
will reject the email. Then I have to request the IP address
used by my provider be unblocked, then I have to re-send.
And of course my provider has a number of IP addresses it
uses for sending email and a re-send might use a different
IP address than the one that was just unblocked. So then
the process repeats.
I wonder how many valid emails are not getting through
because of false-positive results in some spam sensing
algorithm.
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