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Re: Spam On List


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I think I have a pretty good spam filter, and these ads
> for mailing lists always seem to get through, so they aren't particularly
> easy to catch.
>
>

Well, if there is a filter set up I didn't mean to be insensitive. I
thought to ask because some work accounts I use get these messages but
they are properly flagged.

>
> On 5/18/2018 5:03 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>>
>>> There is.  It's not perfect.  Depending on how it's tweaked, either we
>>> get
>>> false positives or some spam makes it through.  It goes back and forth
>>> and
>>> right now it seems were on the latter side.
>>
>> Personally, I much prefer some getting through rather than false
>> positives...  being an eternal cat&mouse game, no spam filter will
>> ever be perfect...
>>
>> -- Erik
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