30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
5:14 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 21:38, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
I used my previous address for +10 years and it is now
getting 200-400
spams a day. Sure I can filter it, but looking for false-positives is just
impossible with this much spam coming in. So I've now gone through with
the painful operation of changing my address, and now get a lot less spam
(actually almost none). I know I won't be spam free forever, but any steps
to slow down the spam flood is _very_ welcome. Hiding addresses in openly
available archives is one easy step to take - less spam to filter,
everybody wins.
Back then when I started with bogofilter I feed it with ~1000 collected spam
mails and ~10000 good mails from lists and private mail. Since then I update
it with the spam slipping through. That way I have reduced spam to currently
2-5 a day.
You might train your filter with the archives of this list while you are
admin. :-)
Arnold
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