> > I don't see much point in tagging spam and then delivering > > it anyway. The spammers still got their message through. > > So what if it's in a special little folder all its own? > > The problem with this approach is that SpamAssassin is a heuristic > system. I have had a number of false positives on this list, for > example, over the last week.
Right, I wouldn't trust SA (or any system) to throw away my messages unread. It nonetheless has value: my spam arrives in "a special little folder" of its own and I review it every day or two, but I can do this very quickly - it takes about 10 seconds to examine and delete a day's worth of spam and I rarely look at anything but the subjects and SA scores. This allows me to deal with spam on my schedule. It doesn't intermingle with my important mail and I have my mail client set to not bother notifying me with a sound when spam comes through. P.S. I have my spam threshold set to 7.0 now. While I've seen a few false negatives, I have yet to see a single false positive in the last week using this threshold. I think the 5.0 threshold is a bit low for the current set of scores. -- michael moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." -- Steven Wright _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
