We run SpamAssassin on our mailserver here at Salon, and it’s generally done a good job of tagging the mountain of spam I receive, but lately, the wily spammers have gotten better at evading it, and on weekends I was seeing hundreds of spams again. So this week I downloaded and installed the newest Eudora (6.0) which includes a Bayesian filter that “learns” what I consider spam. The crap that eludes SpamAssassin and breaches the outer perimeter is now being mercilessly spotlit and executed before it can penetrate the confines of my inbox. (Do I sound like a crazed paramilitary freak? I guess that’s what too many years of >1000 spams per day does to you.) It’s too bad we now need a two-stage defense against spam, but at least it actually works.
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