Re: Dealing with spam

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Terry Carroll (carroll@tjc.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:43:24 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Christopher Allen wrote:

> I wish I could define who the "known" people are to me and use your solution.

My secondary ISP, rahul.net has an extraordinary spam filter. It does
have a few false positives, but in my experience, all the false positives
have occurred only when a) my setting of the spam-filter actually looks at
the _content_ (as opposed to just the headers) of a message, and b) a
friend is writing _about_ a spam, and quotes a part of the spam, which
quotation triggers the spam filter.

I'd be happy to check with rahul whether he'd mind if I passed his list
on. It's rather extensive. I believe his policy is that he doesn't mind
sharing it.

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