Re: A2 in central Canada

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>]

Tim Haynes wrote:

>>Or use e.g. Mozilla to read mail. The newer versions (1.3 and higher)
>>have a very effective spam filter, I used to get up to 100 of them per
>>day, now maybe 1 or so survives the filter, everything else is deflected
>>to a "Junk" folder with pretty much never a false positive. You need to
>>train it for a while (couple of 100 spams) though by telling it what is
>>spam and what isn't, before it gets really reliable.
>>
>>Freely dowloadable from http://www.mozilla.org
> 
> 
> I have resisted the idea of training software to pick out the mail I want,
> because it seems to tedious (a couple of hundred spams?).  How long did it
> take you?

Couple of 100 spams / about 100 spams per day = couple of days. But even
after feeding in 30 or 40 spam mails it will already get more than half
the spam, you just have to correct it whenever it's wrong. False
positives stopped after <100 spams were fed in, if I remember correctly.
I have stopped looking at the Junk folder at all by now.

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Linards Ticmanis

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