[ale] {Spam?} spam flood

[David S. Jackson]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:39:26AM -0500 Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> wrote:
> I am beginning a small project to get all the emails I receive from into my 
> online address book at Earthlink.  After I get that done, I am switching to 
> blocking email by default unless it matches an email in my address book.  
> That is the highest level of blocking that Earthlink offers.  The only 
> problem with this is having to check the "Suspect Email" folder for valid 
> new emails.  But that is minor in my opinion now.  It is a "Drop by 
> default" instead of "Allow by default" policy which is probably best now 
> just like in firewalling, print servers, and so on.
> Dow

FWIW, Earthlink spam controls are what I do now also.  I get about
1500 emails a day, and usually between 500 and a 1000 emails are
garbage.  At least their tool helps you whittle it down some.  I'm
sure there must be a science to making spam assassin work really
effectively, but I was still winding up with 500+ unknowns I'd have
to look at.  The "suspect" folder usually has about 5 or less false
positives.  At least I can dispose of them without having to process
them anymore...

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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