From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

John Tserkezis wrote:

>  If anyone sending a valid email to me can't get at least that part of 
> the header right, I'm not interested in reading it.  With me, 
> statistically, it appears a 100% correct assumption so far.

  Sigh, I've forgotten to mention, there are exceptions, such as this group.  I 
get them all addressed to fidoavtech{at}videocam.net.au.  But they're filtered 
first into all the groups I get (10+ yahoo groups, piclist, and several other 
misc. listservers).
  There's a bunch of other filters sorted into personal contacts as well.

  After all that group filtering, anything left is put through more specific 
spam filtering, which just puts that mail into the trash folder, where I 
peridically check for mis-detected real mail (rare though).

  Anything left over is the odd personal email I get.

  Adds up to anywhere between 70 to several hundred messages a day.  I get 
occasional spam in the listserver messages, but a bit of initial filtering 
before the group filtering does the job quite well there, apparently, list 
server spammers have no imagination, and are remarkably consistant.

  Nowadays, I get about one spam message every month or two not detected as 
spam, and about the same with mis-detected real mail (falsely detected as spam).

   And the filtering is ALL non-intelligent text based.

  Mozilla has a smart learning combination keyword spam detection feature, but 
I've found it incredibly unreliable, even after several months of learning.
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