[geeks] New Spam Disclaimer

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 06:58:52PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

>                                    I get the feeling that many of the
> larger ISPs don't block much spam because of the worry about the
> reactions of some of their customers (some people actually *like*
> spam).

You're at least partially correct.  I require that my ISP not try to block
any spam, because I know damned well that I can do a better job myself.
The day my ISP starts filtering *any* of my traffic, whether it be mail,
web or anything else, is the day I choose a different provider.

And yes, I want to receive spam that is addressed to me for other reasons
too.  Some of it is damned funny.  And when I generate statistics from my
mail, I would like them to be accurate.  And I'd like to be able to tweak
my spamassassin settings to be more accurate - a job that requires full,
unexpurgated data.

As for the comment someone made about spamassasin catching a percent or
two of valid mail - that's why I only use it to filter into a seperate
mailbox, not to delete mail.

-- 
David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

  Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use
  regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems.        -- jwz