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Solution for Dumb Spam Filters: Go Backward?
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IT depts. under great anti-spam pressure!
11/12/2002 1:11:58 PM
Posted By: Josh Fruhlinger

Hi there -- I've been following the pieces in this blog on anti-spam filters that are too sensitive. I used to be an editor at a dot com where anyone whose email address was publically exposed on the Web got literally hundreds of spam emails a day. It was a source of real anger on the part of a lot of the editors towards the IT staff; the editors were very insistent that the problem be "fixed." I can imagine the poor IT guy who thinks he has finally fixed this problem only to be screamed at because his filter is too sensitive. I had my share of run-in with IT but I always feel bad when they are subject to intense and contradictory pressures -- the only perfect spam filter will be a human being examining each incoming message.

jf
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