On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 at 21:48 -0500, Jon B wrote: > rude?? really? why? > > after years of having to sift through spam all the time and losing > real mails in the spam folders, i'm paranoid about releasing my real > address onto the web in any form. so far i think i've only received > the brute force type mails to my real address, where they just guess > your address, and, of course, the few that get sent to my disposable > addresses. > > 20 per day!?? eek! sounds like a huge pain to me. > > i've received exactly 10 spams since feb 28th (today is march 29th), > all of which are to disposable addresses (from mailing lists like this > one) and i can delete the address if someone big decides to put one on > their list and send me tons of internet pharmaceutical mailings. i > think it's a nice way to operate. I used to be careful and care about where my email address went and worry about spam. Then I realized that gee whiz I'm spending more effort trying to avoid spam then I would be just dealing with it. I discovered Paul Graham's "A Plan for Spam" essay and ESR's wonderful bogofilter program. I have flung my email address around shamelessly for over two years now, and I currently have only one or two "unsure" messages that are really spam to deal with per day. The rest go to a spam file that I mostly ignore but go dig in when I don't get that email from ebay that I'm expecting (and of course I periodically purge it). Except for ebay emails, most of which have a low SNR anyway, I very rarely get any false positives. Even some legit ebay messages make it through - bogofilter knows something I don't about telling the difference (or it has secretly been observing my ebay auctions). Bayesian analysis is a pretty naive and simplistic approach to email filtering, and yet it works amazingly well. I choose to let my computer do the hard work in dealing with spam. Not to say you're wrong in any way, but only to point out what I do. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050329/9648884a/attachment.bin
