On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:41:40AM +1030, Tim wrote:
Tim:
I've always considered having to check your spam for false positives to make having anti-spam filtering a waste of time.
Heinz Diehl:
It depends. I've been receiving about 30 spam emails daily, on average. A quick look into my spam-folder is enough to check if any serious email accidently got classified as spam.
I'm using a combination of procmail and CRM-114, by the way..
But you don't trust it enough, not to check...
If I had to check up on it, I don't consider it trustworthy.
You don't entertain the possibility that not all spam filters are 100% correct or that no software is 100% reliable, given the fact that it's all developed by humans, none of whom are 100% infallible?
And, probably more to the point, it's an extreme annoyance when you email someone, and their crappy anti-spam software falsely classifies your email as spam. Eventually you give up trying to get a reply from them, and have to phone them for a response.
Did it ever cross your mind that the software might not be so crappy, but that the user might not know how to write filters correctly?
I really get tired of people blaming the software, and yes, there is some really crappy software out there but a program that has been in widespread use for a long time has almost all the bugs fixed and ain't all that crappy.