Re: Spam Filters vs. Mailing Lists

[Tom Coradeschi]

Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>On Friday, May 18, 2001, at 06:25 PM, Tim Pierce wrote:
>>We spent years trying to educate people not to believe "virus
>>warnings" that they got in e-mail anyway, since 99% of the time
>>they're the Budweiser Frogs hoax.  Warnings about a *real* virus
>>will come to them through other channels.
>>
>
>Except these days, I see very, very few hoax mails, and lots of "I 
>caught this, it sent itself to everytone on my list, and you're one 
>of them...". And to me, that's a whole different kettle of fish...

Wow. Your experience is almost exactly the polar opposite of mine, 
Chuq. I get tons of the hoax viruses and very very few of the real 
ones. I'm almost thinking of filtering on the string "this was just 
announced by Intel and IBM".

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