#inherits previous disclaimers
There's a paper floating around (can't get to it right now since I'm
on my BB in a beach in goa) that claims that gmail users are smarter
and wealthier than yahoo or hotmail users.
This could be because the gmail userbase hasn't trickled down to the
unwashed masses
On 7/6/07, Ved Prakash Vipul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am sure relative competencies (gmail vs yahoo) play a big role, but
yahoo has a larger attack surface - they have been around much
longer and hence spammers have more target addresses @yahoo
and are also more familiar with their AS approac
On Friday 06 Jul 2007 2:21 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> I am still ignorant of what actually *happens* (or ought to happen)
> when I send tick that box, marking messages as spam. Does the software
> mark down the IP address of the sending computer? Does it mark the
> words in the subject title for futu
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:36:38PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Yeah, and several of them suck bad at spam filtering even though they
> dont know they suck that bad.
I agree that they suck. Spamassassin can't compete with the number
of measurement points and aggregated human classificat
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Which is why they suck so badly.
>
> My point of view that there should be one VServer/customer,
> with static IP and full postfix/procmail/spam/antivirus/webmail
> mounty, if that's what the customer wants.
>
> several-middle-linux-boxes-run-by-a-geek-ly Yrs,
Yeah, and sev
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:37:58AM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Given what I know of the people running yahoo email - they do have a very
> high awareness of it. Large ISP / email provider filtering doesnt work the
> same way as at "small linux box run by a geek" type domains.
Which is
Abhijit Menon-Sen [06/07/07 13:13 +0530]:
> And why is Gmail so much better on the spam scenario?
On a related note, here's a paper titled "Sender Reputation in a Large
Webmail Service" by someone at Google. http://www.ceas.cc/2006/19.pdf
Yup. That's a great paper to read, and pretty close to
Deepa Mohan [06/07/07 11:50 +0430]:
Since I am not a techie, I want to know, especially with reference to
Yahoo...what happens when I mark something on my inbox as spam? I get
a standard "thank you" saying that it helps every time I identify
something as spam...but of late, I notice that my Yahoo
On 7/6/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am still ignorant of what actually *happens* (or ought to happen)
when I send tick that box, marking messages as spam. Does the software
mark down the IP address of the sending computer? Does it mark the
words in the subject title for future ref
I am still ignorant of what actually *happens* (or ought to happen)
when I send tick that box, marking messages as spam. Does the software
mark down the IP address of the sending computer? Does it mark the
words in the subject title for future reference? What else is it
supposed to do? And if it d
On 7/6/07, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why a message saying "find a fuckbuddy tonight" makes
it past a spam filter, I will never understand.
For some of us, that's email from our friends, not spam...
-- Charles
On Jul 6, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: [ on 01:08 PM 7/6/2007 ]
Policies I guess... My opinion is that Yahoo engineers have the spam
problem solved to the extend Google has, but the higher ups are
reluctant to deploy these solutions.
I thought (back w
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: [ on 01:08 PM 7/6/2007 ]
Policies I guess... My opinion is that Yahoo engineers have the spam
problem solved to the extend Google has, but the higher ups are
reluctant to deploy these solutions.
I thought (back when I was using Yahoo mail regularly - upto around
1.
At 2007-07-06 09:38:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > And why is Gmail so much better on the spam scenario?
On a related note, here's a paper titled "Sender Reputation in a Large
Webmail Service" by someone at Google. http://www.ceas.cc/2006/19.pdf
> My opinion is that Yahoo engineers have
On 06/07/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
more and more spam, and if not for the fact that I use it for many
purposes, I would shut it (I combined those two words while typing,
and typed another word, oops,Freudian slip!) down...
Suggestion: Why not use Yahoo's "Forward all email" fea
Hey Jess, nice to see you around after ages! I hope the bullet got you
in the shoulder, not the heart! ;-)
Deepa.
On 7/6/07, Jessica Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deepa,
I check silk mail after ages..and this is the first one I see :/
As of now I have no satisfying answer. .. Yahoo is w
Deepa,
I check silk mail after ages..and this is the first one I see :/
As of now I have no satisfying answer. .. Yahoo is working to improve
its spam 'management'.
And Thaths is the better man...always! :)
~Jess
Deepa Mohan wrote:
Since I am not a techie, I want to know, especially with re
Since I am not a techie, I want to know, especially with reference to
Yahoo...what happens when I mark something on my inbox as spam? I get
a standard "thank you" saying that it helps every time I identify
something as spam...but of late, I notice that my Yahoo id is getting
more and more spam, an
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