Re: Substitute 'bad words' with 'good words' according to lists

Because the object of the firewall is spam filtering more than anything else, and if you let the email through, you're not reducing the amount of spam. Personally, I prefer using Yahoo for my email. Yahoo has the advantage of access to a huge sampling of emails and user input, so it can much better decide whether an email (or host) is spam or not than the average corporate firewall.

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OT: Re^2: Substitute 'bad words' with 'good words' according to lists by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Sep 26, 2005 at 01:47 UTC
If that's so, then why does my GMail account correctly filter 99% of my 30+ spams/day while Yahoo fails to filter more than 80% of the 50+ spams/day that account receives? Hmm ... My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]
Re^2: Substitute 'bad words' with 'good words' according to lists by spiritway (Vicar) on Sep 26, 2005 at 01:51 UTC
Unfortunately, in my experience, Yahoo! generates far too many false positives. I wind up having to go through their bulk mail folder to find messages incorrectly identified as spam.	[reply]