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[OT] RE: cygwin Digest 29 Sep 2008 12:11:21 -0000 Issue 6148
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:03 +0100
- Subject: [OT] RE: cygwin Digest 29 Sep 2008 12:11:21 -0000 Issue 6148
- References: <1222690281.14931.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0809291338190.26198@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
G.W. Haywood wrote on 29 September 2008 13:41:
> Hi there,
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 cygwin-digest-help@cygwin.OI!NO wrote:
>
>> Need your help. would pay 200pound.
>> 144743 by: COLINCE MARK <colincemark@gmail.com>
>
> If you just put the word 'trustworthy' in your anti-spam rules with
> something like a 100 point score you could stop a lot of this.
I'm boggled you can even suggest such a crude filter. It took me no longer
than twenty seconds at google to discover that this would be a bad idea with a
false positive rate of five genuine mails blocked for every one spam it stops.
cheers,
DaveK
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