[thelist] Serious antispam measures

[Kasimir K]

Thank you Kelly!

> If you are unfamilliar with Bayesian mail filters, I suggest this
 > visionary article on the topic:
 > http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

I was unfamiliar with BMFs, and the article indeed was a great read! 
Only after reading this I found out that I'm actually using one myself 
with Thunderbird :-)

 > I don't believe in any solution that makes life harder for legitimate
 > emailers.

I did as I thought there was sometimes no real alternative, but now I 
know there is, and now I couldn't agree more with you.

And for me here's a deeper lesson than just controlling spam: I was 
trying to find a logically solid way, but while that is possible, it has 
too high of a price. But statistical approach gives almost (99.95% or 
more) equally good results without the price. I had forgotten that 
especially at our times the world can not (or should not) be forced to 
rigid patterns and deterministic sequences - it will only blind your 
eyes and give you a serious headache.

thanks,
.k