dan slimmon14h ago

There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.

No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.

Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.

Show threadAndrew Zonenberg10h ago
@danslimmon just block all legitimate marketing emails problem solved
Show threadMarjorieR
@azonenberg @danslimmon most spam I get is badly formatted and gets rejected by postfix even before my spam filter gets to see it. The most common fail is no reverse DNS.
And my spam filters then rejects most of the rest, they don't even get into my spam folders.
So most of the marketing emails I get to see are from companies I have bought from in the past and I've decided I want to see when they are running sales: useful for items I regularly buy such as bike brake pads.
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Show threadJ. R. DePriest    :EA DATA. SF:2h ago

@marjolica @azonenberg @danslimmon

If we blocked no reverse DNS, I'm not sure there would be anything left.