[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?

Fri Mar 4 14:33:37 CET 2011

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+Quote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote on Fri, 04 March 2011 13:57
+
+> My experience of the last 3 years shows that the spam I get is very
+> low.
+> Spam escaping Google's spam filter is around 3-4 per week.
+> Spam in Google's spam folder is between 15-25 per day, but that does
+> not bother me anyway.
+
+Well if you are happy with that then that's great for you.
+Here are the stats of my mail server for a single week:
+
+    122   received
+    126   delivered
+      0   forwarded
+      4   deferred  (7  deferrals)
+      0   bounced
+  51124   rejected (99%)
+
+rejected is practically all spam and is a simple SMTP reject of blocked or
+non-existent email addresses, not content based spam filtering.
+
+> Also I would not change mail addresses just because of spam. 
+
+Nobody is changing email addresses, read the yahoo link it's just
+variations of the same address, your basic address stays the same. 
+
+> excessive spam I'd rather use other means like a good spam filter
+> and/or a tar pit or whatever. I'm not used to let spammers rule my
+> mail system.
+
+Exactly, spam filters use up plenty cpu cycles (which is a problem when you
+run your own server), delay mails (when using greylisting) and therefore
+would rule the mail system as you say (not to mention having to deal with
+false positives or false negatives), using multiple addresses is dead easy
+and much less hassle once you understand the system and get used to it.
+
+I don't have a spam folder or spam filter at all, since I get maybe 1 or 2
+spam emails a week with this system.
+
+Anyway I have no intention of converting or convincing you of anything,
+just accept that there are other ways to deal with email that are equally
+good, that other people use.
+
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