RE: [ASRG] 0 - General, Reliability of Transport

["Chris" <asrg at rebel.com.au>]

>
> There's _always_ an element of doubt.
>
> You need to accept that, and decide where your comfort zone is.
>

My "Comfort Zone" is not to lose important mail CONSEQUENTLY I DO TURN OFF
automatic filtering

Because I operate a business I consider all emails important. perhaps many
of the people on this list are not in my position.

I hate spam as much as the next guy and probably get a lot more than the
average because of the fact I own the domains and therefore get all emails
sent to me (yes I deliberately wildcard my email)

So instead I flag probable and possible spam as such and discard after a
cursory glance. and then go thru the "maybes" by hand.

It's a pain and one I feel is commonplace.

spend some time on webmaster forums and discuss the use of filters with
them. you will find many (the ones that care about customer service) disable
them for this reason.

Now if the definate spams disappeared at the mta I would be in "less
overwhelming" situation and would probably produce fewer mistakes.

It seems to me that a large percentage of the people who participate in this
forum are not at the front end of their business (backroom engineers etc.)
to them it appears that its just a numbers game. so some loss is acceptable.

But when it comes to the decision makers you will find that the attitude is
different.

Chris

>
> Chris wrote:
>
> > In my message where is the "no cost"?
> > I stated and I quote
> > "Spam should be countered but not at the expense of losing possibly
> > important messages"
>
> > Does this say let all SPAM through?
>
> > It just says all reasonable (obvious) measures should be taken
> but not to
> > the extreme of losing important messages.
>
> > In other words, err on the side of caution.
>
> Any spam filter worth using is going to have a non-zero false positive
> rate. There's no escaping that simple fact.
>
> If "not at the expense of losing possibly important messages" means that
> you cannot have false positives on "important messages", then the only
> thing you can do is turn off your spam filters.
>
> "doubt" detectors are just as failure prone as filters ;-)
>
> There's _always_ an element of doubt.
>
> You need to accept that, and decide where your comfort zone is.
>
>
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