[thelist] SpamAssassin Comments Needed

[Sarah Adams]

> It's been so reliable that I have set my email client to 
> automatically delete anything it flags.  It's never given me any
> reason to suspect a false reading.

I'd also highly recommend using SpamAssassin, and I trust it enough to
automatically delete messages it marks as spam, although I wouldn't set
my threshold for this quite as low as 5 points. I've been using it for a
couple of years now and it's had a (very) few false positives, mostly on
newsletters, and those were just over the 5-point threshold (I wouldn't
have missed them, though). But I had one very important email that got
over 6 points - an email from a bookstore letting me know a friend had
bought me a gift certificate. I've since set my threshold to 7 points :)

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sarah adams
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