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From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Spam On List
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 00:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bfe37ea-ccfb-b309-f85f-8065914e0a84@huarp.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACoZoo07Fdi=rSzMkxGVS8MOiqZL+U=K=TMuip3kpFWr2EA5FA@mail.gmail.com>

For what it's worth, I think I have a pretty good spam filter, and these 
ads for mailing lists always seem to get through, so they aren't 
particularly easy to catch.


On 5/18/2018 5:03 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> There is.  It's not perfect.  Depending on how it's tweaked, either we get
>> false positives or some spam makes it through.  It goes back and forth and
>> right now it seems were on the latter side.
> Personally, I much prefer some getting through rather than false
> positives...  being an eternal cat&mouse game, no spam filter will
> ever be perfect...
>
> -- Erik
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-18 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-18 20:49 R0b0t1
2018-05-18 21:03 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2018-05-18 23:33   ` Erik Soderquist
2018-05-19  0:55     ` Norton Allen [this message]
2018-05-19 10:55       ` R0b0t1
2018-05-23 21:33         ` Erik Soderquist

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