[CLUE-Tech] If you administer a mail server, you might find this useful.

[Timothy Klein]

On Friday 04 June 2004 10:05 am, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> For example, with our users it's
> more important that they don't miss a valid important email, than it is
> that their spam is zero.  So spam gets through.

Isn't that the case always?  Shouldn't a false positive be a thousand times 
worse than a false negative, WRT spam?

For what kind of users is it OK to throw a random email away once in a blue 
moon?

That's something I have always wondered about with ISP-based or centralized 
SPAM filters.  I check the spam folder on my machine every couple days, and 
it catches only spam, that I remember.  Once in a while it catches spam-like 
commercial email that I had actually signed up for, but that is 
understandable.  But what if I want that stuff from REI about sales, but my 
ISP throws it away?

Curious to hear from people that actually work on that end.

Tim
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