From: Steve Ewing 

On Sun, 04 May 2003 11:56:38 -0400,  wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2003 10:40:00 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message news::
>
>> That's not a very good ratio. I only tweak the spam filters as a part
>> time
>> job and I can block 9:1 or better.
>>
>
> I just checked Spaminator again after purging everything out of it
> last night.  It had collected 29 more pieces of spam since around
> 12:30 this morning, and 5 pieces made it through their filters on to
> my mailbox.

This is why I prefer filtering on my client, even though I run my own
server and can use blacklists etc.; I do not get many falses, but there are
some; and a provider will naturally tend to err on the side of caution,
letting more through.  It helps that I have DSL so it is not a bandwidth
issue.

Maybe if I get hammered more I will set up the blacklisting; but at present
it is manageable.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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