X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <1222690281 DOT 14931 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: [OT] RE: cygwin Digest 29 Sep 2008 12:11:21 -0000 Issue 6148 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:03 +0100 Message-ID: <04a901c92238$bfa60010$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com G.W. Haywood wrote on 29 September 2008 13:41: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 cygwin-digest-help AT cygwin DOT OI!NO wrote: > >> Need your help. would pay 200pound. >> 144743 by: COLINCE MARK > > 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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/