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Re: Mail, not to be confused with spam...

2011-12-05 14:44:39

Well, in my opinion, most smaller operations and especially users don't have a lot of business or association with Asian IPs, so I know many operations that will have a complete block on any IP known to be from that area.

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Alessandro Vesely wrote:
On 02/Dec/11 12:35, Tony Finch wrote:
John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
This isn't really relevant to the topic under discussion, which is really
that the "legitimate" mail sent around on corporate mail systems is
hardly any better than the spam.
I call it "intraspam". Very hard to deal with.

Harder than interspam?  Paul's "Great Cascade" case, as well as
http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/isss/rules/other/bulkemail/internal.html
seem to be issues about proper use of (proper) mailing lists.

IMHO, the effectiveness of ordinary spam filtering is a sort of
illusion brought about by big numbers law.  For example, some claim
that it is highly effective to reject based on geoip lookups...




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Sincerely

Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com
jabber: hector(_at_)jabber(_dot_)isdg(_dot_)net