No Danita, you're not the only one. :)

FYI, we do just delete high scoring spam.  But we're not an isp so we can take
that chance.

Ellen Clary
Senior System Administrator
Dynamic Graphics

> Danita Zanre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-27 10:10:04 -0600]:
> > As a totally off-topic aside - am I the only female who posts to this lis=
> t?=20
> > The last time I posted about a month ago someone referred to me as "he" -=
> =20
> > so I'm feeling very geeky <g>.
>
> Does mistaken identity have anything to do with being geeky?  English
> just lacks a generic pronoun and everyone will be caught in that
> problem at some time or another.  One of the reasons I take the easy
> way out and avoid those when I can.  And, very unfortunately, you look
> the same on my text display as everyone else's text looks.  However,
> for most of us guys that is a good thing.  :-) Therefore mistaken
> identities are common, especially if someone is fast and furious with
> the keyboard.
>
> Fortunately being geeky is an in thing today.  Maybe not as much today
> that so many .coms have crashed and the tech market is down, I am
> confident it will swing back up again.  But so far it is still okay to
> walk down the street with a ThinkGeek t-shirt on loudly proclaiming to
> the world your technical proclivity.  And it is only getting more so
> as technology becomes more and more a part of everyone's lives.
> Proud to be a geek!
>
> Bob
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:23:23 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin to reject spam?
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx)
>
>
> Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-27 12:56:50 -0400]:
> > BP> It is better to delete it than to bounce it.  Most of all spam is
> > BP> injected with no way to receive a bounce.  If you have received it
> > BP> then it is now to late to bounce it to the spammer since they have
> >=20
> > Only if you don't care about false positives.  If you bounce messages
> > identified as spam, the sender of a falsely-identified message does
> > have a chance to know why.  If you drop the message, the sender has no
> > idea that you never got the message.
>
> Oh, yes, of course.  Thanks for correcting me.  I never just delete
> it.  Then I would not have a spam corpus!  I always either bounce it
> or file it.
>
> Bob



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