On Friday 25 June 2004 20:09, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:36:09PM +0100, Graham wrote:
If you're an 'ordinary' home user the simplest approach is to spam-bin anything not coming from someone in your address book. Quite easy to do if you're using KMail - details on request.
That sounds a bit crazy to me. Quite often I get email from people who are not in my address book...
Me too, but they're rarely messages that need to be read NOW. I don't throw away the spam, just redirect it to a folder for later inspection. Maybe I'm not training the filter properly but I can't achieve a high enough accuracy to avoid the need to inspect the ones that creep through, which amounts to 20-30 a day. Better to have them in a separate folder and go in daily to pick out anything that's genuine What goes into my inbox is now always genuine except for the occasional one that spoofs my address.
Anyway, it'd be no good for a business but it works for me. And certainly for my wife, an Outlook Express user with about 20 contacts, who gets 1 genuine email a week hidden in 200 Brazilian spams (go figure; she's as English as fish'n'chips and doesn't speak a word of Portuguese). And that's just the ones that get through the Bayesian filter.
By the way, Dennis asked for a quick and easy solution.
-- GT