> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:11:57 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Spam false-positive (Was: Re: Yay! email etiquette crap again!)
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> >
> > > Thats why I don't run a spam filter. I'd rather deal with the 5 or 6 I
> > > get a day than risk an important message being lost.
> > >
> >
> > I get a thousand a day. 32 have come in since I sent the original mail
> > about the false positive. Spam filtering is a necessity and well worth it or
> > I would run an ever greater risk of losing an important email than if I
> > didn't filter. I've never had anything important land in the junk folder.
> > Just the occasional mailing list mail.
> >
> > --
> > Tracy R Reed
> >
>
> I _never_ get any spam in my GMail account. Well maybe once
> a week.
>
> Well I take that back. I subscribed to a mailing list for about a
> week that was heavily battered by spam and so I got that. The
> irony is that the mailinglist beloned to a google group run by
> google themselves. I simply quit that list. No more spam.
>
> How many false positives are occurring? How much legitimate
> mail am I missing? I have no idea.
>
> My GMail address is all over the place. I use it indiscriminately,
> but it seems not to generate a lot of spam. Maybe the spammers
> realize GMail addresses are a waste of time.
>
> How about the rest of you?
>
I've had this email since 98. I've used it on usenet, forums, even slashdot.
Many non-technical people who's computers are probably in 3 or 4 botnets have
my address. yet I get almost no spam. I'm quite curious what Tracy did to get
1000 a day.
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