For most of my mail addresses, only allowing mail from senders in a whitelist, would not be an option, for I do want to receive mails from people that I do not already know. I regularly hand out the email address of our skating crew, and of course we get loads of spam, but also most valuable messages. And as most existing spam filtering mechanism provided by the popular web providers (like Spam Assassin) already filtered out newsletters that I had subscribed to, I only use filtering with a very high treshold, so maybe I have to live with loads of spam in my inbox. Sometimes it is even hard to figure out whether a message is spam or not, when looking at the title and sender as a human being, so how should an algorhythm get this right in every case? I think it is impossible as a matter of principle.

fraktalisman keeps rolling

In reply to Re^2: Spam filtering and regular expressions by fraktalisman
in thread Spam filtering and regular expressions by Mr. Lee

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