> Rule No.1: If a rule is likely to hit more > ham then spam due to certain circumstances, > it is not a rule to consider implementing unless > you know you'll never meet the circumstances - > but then it's up to YOU to modify your local.cf > and implement the rule ;)
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to. I'm not saying this filter should be turned on by default, I'm just saying it would be nice to have the option to turn it on. > Yes, they are professional agencies, but yet > again I'm sure they use the emailsystem for > private email - and I assume you are not the one > who decides which email they are allowed to > write/receive and which not. Actually, almost all of my clients have very strong policies prohibiting their employees from using corporate e-mail for personal communication, and this seems to be the way that industry in America is heading. And assumptions are bad - while I'm not the person that makes the "final" decision, I do have lots of influence on the decision process. > You don't mind getting mails to the management > blocked? *boggle* I assume your managers don't > mind you blocking that mail from the manager of > that other professional million dollar agency that > was just about to offer a match of golf tomorrow > to speak about that trillion dollar deal? Sure man, > sure... Again, stop making assumptions. My clients complain WAY more about the massive amounts of SPAM they got than the few e-mails that get incorrectly tagged, and we have ALL our client's employees trained to scan through their "SPAM" messages folder to make sure they're not missing anything important. > Ever heard of the term misinvestment? ;) Ever heard of the term "forward thinking investment"? :) Besides, what's the cost different between a 3.2ghz server and a 2.0ghz server? $250? > Yes, it could certainly be done as rule, but > it's nothing 99% of the mailadmins would ever > consider useful. It's more harmful then useful > since it cannot really distinguish between > ham and spam, the borders are kinda fuzzy for > your logic. All it would do for you would be > filtering out those few mails containing > gibberish, but at the HIGH risk of catching LOTS > of FP. There are 18 plug-ins in the SpamAssassin distribution, only three of which are active on my server. How many people use them all? Probably nobody. Would it hurt to make it so that there were 19 plug-ins that almost nobody uses all of? And it's not a "few e-mails containing gibberish". I personally get about 30 gibberish SPAM's per hour, and many of my clients get that many in a day. Tim Gustafson MEI Technology Consulting, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] (516) 379-0001 Office (516) 908-4185 Fax http://www.meitech.com/
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