Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266270AbUAVNYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:24:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266271AbUAVNYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:24:47 -0500 Received: from jaguar.mkp.net ([192.139.46.146]:2435 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266270AbUAVNYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:24:45 -0500 To: Zan Lynx Cc: Andreas Jellinghaus , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts References: <20040121194315.GE9327@redhat.com> <1074717499.18964.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040121211550.GK9327@redhat.com> <20040121213027.GN23765@srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com> <1074731162.25704.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 22 Jan 2004 08:24:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1074731162.25704.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 26 >>>>> "Zan" == Zan Lynx writes: Zan> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:40, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:44:37 +0000, Mike Fedyk wrote: > What do you >> think about individual email (non-list) using a confirmation > >> based spam blocking system. >> >> for personal email it is plain asocial. it tells me that a person >> does not want to receive mail from me. Zan> For me, that isn't what it says at all. It tells me that he or Zan> she is tired of receiving and sorting all of the spam every day. Zan> Since I feel exactly the same way about spam, I cooperate and Zan> reply with a confirmation. I've had people pull the authentication game on me before. I just stopped replying to them, waste of my time. Fixing the spam problem is a lot easier without losing contact with all your friends in the proces:, train your Bayesian filters and be done with it. Mine were a mess, deleted all the data and fed 10 days of spam and some proper mail through sa-learn. Since then I have seen 1 spam make it through during the last week, it used to be 20-40/day (and some 200-300/day caught by the filters). Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/