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Date:	Tue, 25 May 2004 11:14:44 PDT7
From:	"George M. Boyd" <bb385@lafn.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: mail server running again

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J. R. Fox wrote:
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> Peter Skye wrote:
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>>Simple answer: No. There are lots of possible techniques but each has
>>negatives.
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> Yes, but if this onslaught of junk keeps bringing down the system, or
> threatening to bring it down, then obviously we must do *something* about
> it.
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> The vast majority of the email that comes to me (and possibly to everyone,
> these days) happens to be Spam. I seldom have to inspect any of it: what it
> is is immediately clear, just from the Title or the From field. If either
> of these are blank, that's a dead giveaway as well. I could zap a million
> of these things, and maybe just kill one or two legit items inadvertently.
>
Jordan:

Spam filters can get too aggressive. I just lost an important message
because my ISP, Los Angeles Free Net, blocked it as spam. Fortunately,
they list all blocked messages and I was able to see the address of the
sender and request a resend to a different ISP. I like the filtering, it
does keep a lot of spam from my mailbox, but it does have that problem
of incorrent blocking.

George

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