Re (2): [ASRG] 0 Good technical choices are not always good business choices

[edgar at edgarschwarz.de]

Sorry second try, the first try only went to mouse :-(
der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
> > And in relation to Chris's comment about forwarding yourself spam,
> > the simple answer is to apply filters in conjunction with another
> > method, such as whitelists.  [...]
> > But I don't know why anyone would want to do this.
> It wasn't mentioned because anyone would want to do it; it was
> mentioned in yet another (futile, I fear) attempt to dispose of the
> delusion some people seem to have that it is possible to have filters
> that simultaneously (a) stop some nonzero fraction of spam and (b) stop
> absolutely no ham, by pointing out that sometimes the _only_ difference
> between spam and ham lies in domains such as human intent that are not
> accessible to mechanized filters.
I agree that human intent is an important thing not easily supported by
filters.
Therefore my intent would be to identify mass spammers and stop them.
Wouldn't it be a useful strategy if a rejected spam would go back to somebody
who can do something about it ? Not the probably forged innocent sender.
And wouldn't it be important that a rejected mail would somehow go back to
the sender it it was valid and rejected erronously ?
I made a proposal recently and got some critical feedback. Nevertheless
I think some of the critisism wasn't valid. The main reason being that
I didn't state clearly enough my ideas.
I will provide an answer probably tomorrow. Too early now (12:12 pm)
Or should it be am ? Too dark now to look it up :-)
BTW, today I got perhaps a hundred spams going to addresses like
lkbidiqxb, nmhugcvs, nmhugcvs or aahcbf at <my domain>.
So I wonder. Are these just dumb spammmers ? Mixing up a couple of letters
and sending it me ? Or does somebody doesn't like my comments on spam on
my homepage ?
I didn't update my spamlogs for some months now. But they are all here on
my harddisk. So wait and see until they come :-)

Cheers, Edgar




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