Arrrgh!

[garote]

NO you people, I do NOT want Xanax, Ambien, Viagra, Cialis, Hoodia, a "rolex replica" watch, a bouquet, a new mortgage, a round of Texas Hold-'Em, a screensaver, DVD cloning software, life insurance, pirate w4r3z in fake boxes, an eBay handbook, "nude celeb" photos, a merchant credit card account, shares of crap stock, a crap diploma, crap vitamins, or a profile on a dating site!

I'm up to 40 messages a day that the *$(&@# junk filter can't capture no matter how much I train it.

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[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

40? You're lucky. For a while I had 500 a day, and as it is I'm still up around 200 most days. Filters have helped, but it's easier for me to click through and delete than it is to train a filter that gives too many false positives.

Spam is a huge, huge problem.

[robocowboy.livejournal.com]

You used your primary email as yor registrar contact, didn't you?

It used to be bad for me, but about the time gmail started up, I cancellad all old email accounts, started a new one that is only for primary use (friends, message boards, etc) and some new "junk" ones that are safe for public display. Now I only get a couple junk mails a day.

The one that gets hit the worst of all is the address I used to register my domain name.

[maggiedacatt.livejournal.com]

Oh, aye. I get not only spam e-mail, but spam snailmail addressed to my business that lasted 5 minutes, but was listed on my domain name registration.

[garote]

AH HAH!!! My registrar contact! Of course!!!!!

You are a genius!

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

That's what happened for me...and now that I've had the same email for 10 years, there's no way I'd get rid of it.

[penguin-boy.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmmmm I'll taken the ambien, that shit is fun!

[shutupassbutt.livejournal.com]

I get junk emails about how to get rid of junk emails.

[lucasmembrane.livejournal.com]

I like how, with the rise of bayesian filtering, spammers' attempts to circumvent keyword-based filters so often backfire. For example, an email about Ambien may well be legitimate, since I work for the company that makes it, but an email about 4mb1en is most certainly not.

[garote]

That's got to be a weird position to be in. So do you set up an anti-anti-spam rule in your mailbox?

[lucasmembrane.livejournal.com]

Nah, the company's filtering of outside mail is quite sufficient to take care of those sorts of things, and if anyone emails me at home, it can't be *that* important. And since I'm not in sales or marketing, I really don't have to worry about outside emails that deal with our products. But it's just interesting to realize that if I were training a filter from scratch (rather than using Gmail's built-in filters), "Ambien" would probably not get an email flagged as spam, whereas "4mb1en" would.

[garote]

as well as P R O Z ^ C and L E V / T R A ;)