Spam Filter

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 16:14 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Rejecting the message in the SMTP transaction means that the *sender*
>> knows you didn't get the email, so they can either try resending a
>> less-spammy message, or contacting you by other means if it's
>> something important. No intervention needed on your part.
> 
> Restating the obvious:  Eliminating the big worry from anti-spam
> filtering, that you might flag non-spam as spam, never see it, though
> the recipient thought you did (because they had no error indication).
> Once you've removed that "black hole" you're gained a much more useful
> mail system.

Heh - one thing I use procmail rules for is to deposit the uol-MUNGED.br
challenge/response messages into the infinite big bucket in /dev/null.
It reduces my blood pressure and it leaves them guessing.

{^_-}