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Re: reverse the spam rules

2003-10-30 12:42:18
Christopher L. Barnard wrote:

I am seeing a lot of email about how to trap spam email.  I am using
procmail in the reverse: consider everything spam and only trap what I
want.  I am curious to get other folks opinion of this solution.

It depends on your implementation and in particular on how you handle false positives. If you deleted positives unseen, or worse, if you autoreplied to them with some invective tearing them a new one for sending you spam, you'd be handling it very badly. But you're doing neither of those things:

> So anything that I do not explicitly want to keep is ...
> put in a folder ... that I can search through ... for
> false positives.

Fine.

> add a header to any email that I want to keep:

See Sean's post regarding that.


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