[SpamCop-List] Re: "Replica classic watches" spam.

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> With both Suspect and Junk folders you would make only two types of
> rules.

An easier configuration to rulemake is to have a Friends folder and a
Junk folder and no Suspect and let your Inbox be Suspect, ie not
whitelisted and not 'Junk' where Junk is not addressed to you.

The problem I would rather have everyone avoid is that of eyeball
filtering spam by 'reading' spamsubjects and spamfroms.  That is no
good.

A proper spamfilter doesn't involve doing that, because a proper filter
has already combed the interior of the spamheaders and the spambody in a
much more sophisticated and speedy fashion that your error prone
eyeballs are able to do.  That proper spamfilter has already identified
the spams as coming from spamsources and/or containing spam content as
opposed to the 'frailty' of your eyeballs landing on the outside
misleading spamsubject and spamfrom.

A real spamfilter is quite sophisticated thorough and accurate and
efficient.  OE's rules are quite incompetent, just like reading
spamsubjects.

Also, reading spamsubjects is the first step toward opening a spam to
either find out what it is or out of human curiosity.  That is generally
an unhealthy activity.  The average spam recipient should *not* be
reading spamsubjects and/or opening spams or reading spams.  Spamreading
is only for more advanced spamfighters and advanced spam reporters, not
the curious.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin