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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
> Hi, Bob? This is Susan. I haven't received a reply from you regarding the > email I sent yesterday, did you get it? You didn't? Hmmm. Let me try > resending it. > > Hi Bob? This is Susan again. Did you get that second email > yet? No?! Maybe you should call your ISP to find out why! Yes, I > already called mine, they don't have any info, they say the mail server > logs show that both the messages were delivered to your ISP. > > Hi, Mr. ISP support guy? This is Bob. It seems that I'm not getting all > of my email.... > ...................... > Collateral damage IS a problem, but that's part of why it works to reduce spam. There are ways to get around this. I participated in a Brightmail beta sponsored by @Home for two of my personal email accounts. All my "filtered mail" was not deleted but moved to some other mailbox. I had the ability of logging in periodically and seeing what mail was caught as spam. False positives were easy to eradicate (a click or two), one mailing list I was on was caught as spam and less than 24 hours after submission, mail was flowing properly again. I post with my personal email address (without modification) on Usenet so I get a fair share of spam (20-30 pieces or more per day among a few of my email accounts). Brightmail was a godsend, I am willing to live with a few false positives and not have to deal with hitting delete 20 times.
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