T&T: brenthg at yahoo.com has sent you a message about IDrive.

[Michael Eedy]

A couple of thoughts.

First, I didn't receive the second spam posting so it likely appears to be
but is not from the list.

Second, it needs to be understood that this is not a "moderated" list. That
implies that each and every e-mail is screened by a human being before being
released to the list. The volunteers running the list don't have the time
(that's for boating) nor inclination for that amount of control.

Third, there are a limited set of filters set up that are meant to block
previous problems. Unfortunately, this not being a perfect world they also
often hold up benign postings.

Fourth, few people realize the extent of the problem. My particular
organization has about 120,000 members. The last time I saw any figures
about 80% of the e-mails addressed to internal addresses were blocked at the
perimeter as spam. That's hundreds of thousands of e-mails rejected each day
- yet some still get through. Most spam filters are based upon blocking
previously identified signatures of spam received and reported. That always
puts the filters behind the current crop, but so far predictive filters have
proven to block too many legitimate e-mails.

So my advice is to understand and just delete the few that make their way
into the list. Life is too short and too valuable to obsess about this. And
of course my advice is worth what you paid for it ;-)

CHeers

Mike Eedy
North Bay ON


This is the second spam today that has gotten past the moderators. At times,
I have had even legitimate posts to the list held by the moderators, yet
these get through. Any idea how to stop them?


?


John










-----Original Message-----

From: brenthg at yahoo.com

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Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:59 pm

Subject: T&T: brenthg at yahoo.com has sent you a message about IDrive.





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