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Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

  • From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
  • Date: Sun Oct 21 18:41:51 2007

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:37:54 -0500
Dave Pooser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If something comes that is not whitelisted then email is sent
> > back asking you to confirm that it is not spam.  I received one of these
> > confirmation requests for a piece of spam that I did not send out.
> 
> Whenever I get one of those, I go ahead and confirm the message so the spam
> gets through to the end user. I figure if they think I'm gonna filter their
> mail for free, well, they get what they pay for.  :^)

Heh.  Never eve thought of that.  That sounds like enough fun that I
may even turn off the blocker.  :-)

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