> >then moved to DELETE after seeing almost no legitimate mail affected.
>
>Hi Roger. As an end user, I would insist of my ISP that any approach to
>spam filtering not delete ANY legitimate mail.
>
>I'd rather put of with spam than have my legitimate mail deleted.
Just a couple points here:
First, a lot of our customers are businesses (where the users are
employees) and schools (where the users are students or employees), so it
isn't necessarily up to the end user to decide what mail they get.
Also, Declude JunkMail Pro is one of the very few anti-spam programs that
let you change the settings for specific users. So even though most ISPs
that block mail based on anti-spam tests can't do anything if you don't
like it, it is possible with Declude.
Another thing to consider is the BADHEADERS and MAILFROM tests, which catch
a lot of spam, while not catching any legitimate mail (unless it was sent
from a broken mail client, in which case the mail may not make it to you
anyways, or has a bogus return address, which shouldn't happen on
legitimate mail).
My personal preference for ISPs is to use the WARN action (which puts a
warning in the E-mail headers that the recipient can filter on), the
SUBJECT action (which alters the subject to make it easy to determine which
E-mails are considered spam), or the BOUNCE actions (which send a bounce
message to the sender, so they know the mail wasn't delivered).
-Scott
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