--On Monday, February 24, 2003 7:41 AM -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth -- 42% of my incoming email to plaidworks is now spam. > mail.app on jaguar catches over 99% of that, and I've had maybe 3 false > positives this month, all e-newsletters from vendors I want sent to me. > That's easily fixed by adding their addresses to my address book. > > The downside of a client solution is I have to download it to process it. > the upside is I have final say, so I don't lose those three messages to > some service without knowing it...
I use an IMAP server on my dedicated host, so I kind of get the best of both worlds on that score - server-side filtering (much more comforting on the antivirus side) with complete personal control over the config. The downside is that if structures fill up etc, I have to page myself at 4am :) but that's rare. I never send anything to /dev/null, just to junk folders that I periodically clean out. I prefer that because if someone says "I emailed that doc to you last Monday" and I didn't see it, I always have a dumpster I can dive for it as a last resort.
