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[Collins Richey]

[ From Collins Richey

> I'm not sure I would benefit from the spam filtering, since I almost
> never see spam on the CLUE lists. 'course that may be because gmail
> has superb spam filters.

[From: David Amselmi ]

This would benefit the admins who deal with held mail on the lists, not
the users.

What are gmail's false negative/positive rates?  Or is "superb" just
hyperbole?  (Ok, that might be a might curmudgeonly ;-)

Superb in my case means about 3 per week spams that slip throu, and
about 3 per month (or less)  that are false hits. Superb is the
convenience of having all the sparm wind up in a folder where two
clicks and it's gone. And all this without doing much on my end. If a
false miss slips through, I mark it as spam, and I don't see any more
misses.

I scan the list every couple of days, and on those rare occasions
where it's not spam, one click sends it back to the inbox.

A humorous side note, when I first signed up for BLUG, gmail wanted to
mark most of the posts as spam. After sending back a few dozen, gmail
learned. Even today, the rare number of false hits are mostly BLUG
mail <grin>.


--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
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