I guess I shouldn't have used the V-word when talking about spam on the IRTF's mailing list about spam.
sheesh!--talk about utterly lame and misguided spam filters.
But in the case of the V word, it works. The only concern I'd have is whether the rejection message implies that it's far more unnecessarily draconian on other words/phrases.
8+ months of blocking on it, 10's of thousands of rejects, approximately 4 false positives. 5 if Vern had gotten it thru the mailing list. Better than a .01% FP rate. Not bad.
IETF mailing lists are particularly prone to high volumes of spam. I for one am particularly glad that they're moving to filters. Takes a _huge_ load of end-user complaints off _my_ head, as well as those of my colleagues running IETF mailing lists of their own.
Speaking of which, I should whitelist asrg@ietf.org.
