[Hidden-tech] An Idea about Email

[Diane Clancy]

I agree that it can be a problem to lose good 
email.  Personally right now I have taken off 
spam filters since I sometimes get customers from 
my site ... and I want each and every one of 
them!!

~ Diane Clancy
http://dianeclancy.com

At 8:33 PM -0400 8/27/08, Scott Reed wrote:
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>
>Jim,
>I think your approach can identify a lot of 
>spam, but if I was one of your users I would be 
>very unhappy if it falsely identifies more than 
>one (or perhaps two) non-spam emails as spam per 
>month. I suggest you test your idea out and see 
>how many false positives you get. If it doesn't 
>work as you hope, there are a lot of people 
>working on this problem using sophisticated 
>methods to regularly publish white- and 
>black-lists that you can obtain for free and use 
>with free, well-built, server-based 
>spam-filtering software to identify most spam 
>without false positives. Have you had a chance 
>to look at the 
><http://www.slammingspam.com>Slamming Spam book 
>yet? As someone interested in this problem, I 
>think you would find it enlightening.
>   Scott
>
><mailto:ussailis at shaysnet.com>ussailis at shaysnet.com wrote:
>
>>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>>
>>
>>But this is not what I am talking about.
>>
>>I see it on the small (really small) ISP receiving end. Many messages with
>>the same stuff, same header, same text, etc. Yes, much, much more spam is
>>randomized, has a different fake header, etc. But some does not.
>>
>>I also think that the number where one dumps it as spam is highly dependent
>>on the number of users a given ISP's server has. 4 or 5 would work for me.
>>Perhaps 2017 is the number for someone else. That's a TBD.
>>
>>
>>Jim Ussailis
>>
>>
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