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Subject: [OT] RE: cygwin Digest 29 Sep 2008 12:11:21 -0000 Issue 6148
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:03 +0100
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G.W. Haywood wrote on 29 September 2008 13:41:

> Hi there,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 cygwin-digest-help@cygwin.OI!NO wrote:
> 
>> Need your help. would pay 200pound.
>> 	144743 by: COLINCE MARK <colincemark@gmail.com>
> 
> If you just put the word 'trustworthy' in your anti-spam rules with
> something like a 100 point score you could stop a lot of this.

  I'm boggled you can even suggest such a crude filter.  It took me no longer
than twenty seconds at google to discover that this would be a bad idea with a
false positive rate of five genuine mails blocked for every one spam it stops.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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