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losing the battle

By catdynamics on July 28, 2007.

didn't check my e-mail for 24 hours, weekend, very light on "real e-mail"
so I got good statistics on the spam
we're losing

I have four levels of spam filtering: the university does virus and porn trapping, the department has an adaptive filter, my mailbox has a filter, and my local mailer has an adaptive filter;
for a while I had negligible spam getting through and would check the main mailbox spambox to see if any real mail had accidentally fallen in - could quickly flick through a few hundred collected spam mails looking for the real things

now, a lot of my mailing list stuff is piped directly into mail subdirectories for archiving or inspection at leisure, but - over 100 spam e-mail got through to my mailbox and filtered, getting through the top two layers; the scary thing is that out of 40 new e-mails, 32 were spam, and only a dozen or so were tagged by the local adaptive filter.

Those are bad odds, and unacceptable volume.

I'm seriously thinking I will have to switch to whitelist mail, as hard as that is when teaching and doing recruiting

Bastards.

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