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Subject: Re: Spam Filters vs. Mailing Lists
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora @ skylands . ibmwr . org>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:47:23 -0400
To: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>
Cc: list-managers <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <200105190337.f4J3bph22737@plaidworks.com>
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Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>On Friday, May 18, 2001, at 06:25 PM, Tim Pierce wrote:
>>We spent years trying to educate people not to believe "virus
>>warnings" that they got in e-mail anyway, since 99% of the time
>>they're the Budweiser Frogs hoax.  Warnings about a *real* virus
>>will come to them through other channels.
>>
>
>Except these days, I see very, very few hoax mails, and lots of "I 
>caught this, it sent itself to everytone on my list, and you're one 
>of them...". And to me, that's a whole different kettle of fish...

Wow. Your experience is almost exactly the polar opposite of mine, 
Chuq. I get tons of the hoax viruses and very very few of the real 
ones. I'm almost thinking of filtering on the string "this was just 
announced by Intel and IBM".

                  tom coradeschi <+> tcora@skylands.ibmwr.org
          Skylands (NJ) BMW Riders <+> <http://skylands.ibmwr.org/>



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