[SC-Help] Re: Spammers getting smarter?

[Mike Easter]

Geoff Lane wrote:
> but I still get nearly a thousand spams a week sent to valid
> email addresses. So, the ten a week represents about one percent of
> messages tagged as spam, which probably isn't as bad as you thought.

The reason 10 false positives is 'bad' is because they are 'buried' in a
thousand spams, which 'buries' you back into those thousand 'things' to
have to look at.  A thousand messages a week to have to humanly look at
'carefully' because of goodmail getting in there;  because you don't
want to lose or report goodmail.

If you had a different configuration so that week after week there were
no wanted mails tagged, but the occasional spam were untagged, wouldn't
that be better?  The occasional false negative which my SP configuration
permits is *always* easily recognizable as spam, so I simply move it
over to the Junk manually.

That *has* to be better than looking thru' a thousand ugly spams trying
to find a few goodmails.  That sounds terrible.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin