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<p>[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 7913116, member: 59677"]Back in the mid-early days of desktop email, you could buy add-on programs with programmable filters, or it was built into the email program.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned two, no three things...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. It is really easy to make a filter rule set that is 70, even 80% accurate. And that set would be relatively small - if it's not addressed TO me, a couple of dozen common misspelled words, or the email came from AOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The accuracy of the filter drops over time - spam changes. And so I was spending a lot of time modifying the filter based on what slipped through. I would hit 90 or even 95% accuracy for a week and then it would slide.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. I was spending more time coding filter rules than just viewing the inbox and pressing delete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over time, I found that my redirector has a service, MailRoute. My ISP has filters. And my mail client (Outlook) has filters too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Combined they're probably 95% +/- due to the effort of a fair number of full-time mail experts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still spend a non-trivial amount of time, reviewing email, checking spam traps, and the like. But it's definitely less time than when I was doing it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very, very rarely, important emails get a false positive as spam.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the time, it doesn't matter. If I hadn't found this message, they probably would have canceled my bid in a month, blocked me from bidding again, and I would spend less money with them. Net-net, a wash.</p><p><br /></p><p>I firmly believe that since there's essentially no cost to send an email we'll never solve the problem. If we made it cost a cent or a nickel, spam would drop to nothing and most of us wouldn't notice the extra 10c a month in our Internet bill.</p><p><br /></p><p>Make senders pay for text messages and teenagers will wither and die on the vine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 7913116, member: 59677"]Back in the mid-early days of desktop email, you could buy add-on programs with programmable filters, or it was built into the email program. I learned two, no three things... 1. It is really easy to make a filter rule set that is 70, even 80% accurate. And that set would be relatively small - if it's not addressed TO me, a couple of dozen common misspelled words, or the email came from AOL. 2. The accuracy of the filter drops over time - spam changes. And so I was spending a lot of time modifying the filter based on what slipped through. I would hit 90 or even 95% accuracy for a week and then it would slide. 3. I was spending more time coding filter rules than just viewing the inbox and pressing delete. Over time, I found that my redirector has a service, MailRoute. My ISP has filters. And my mail client (Outlook) has filters too. Combined they're probably 95% +/- due to the effort of a fair number of full-time mail experts. I still spend a non-trivial amount of time, reviewing email, checking spam traps, and the like. But it's definitely less time than when I was doing it myself. Very, very rarely, important emails get a false positive as spam. Most of the time, it doesn't matter. If I hadn't found this message, they probably would have canceled my bid in a month, blocked me from bidding again, and I would spend less money with them. Net-net, a wash. I firmly believe that since there's essentially no cost to send an email we'll never solve the problem. If we made it cost a cent or a nickel, spam would drop to nothing and most of us wouldn't notice the extra 10c a month in our Internet bill. Make senders pay for text messages and teenagers will wither and die on the vine.[/QUOTE]
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