Re: please kindly get back to me

Davide Libenzi
2002-06-03T20:05:03Z

On 3 Jun 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to: <20020603120653.C4940@work.bitmover.com>
> By author: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:00:46PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > > Anti-spam technology really needs constant evolution, as those
> > > spammers do evolve themselves...
> >
> > If ever there was something which was screaming for an open source project,
> > it's spam filtering. It seems like every major mailing list has someone
> > like Matti, working really hard on a thankless task, but losing out under
> > the tide of new spam every day. Seems to me if there was a public repository
> > (sourceforge, bkbits, whatever) with a collection of procmail filters which
> > have been shown to work correctly, that would be a win.
> >
>
> The biggest problem is that you're bound to get sued, so you have to
> worry about legal defence...

... the other problem with this kind of filters is that all emails coming
from marketing/biz ppl inside companies will result as spam ...
( that is actually true :-) )

- Davide