Re: Spamcop mail

D-W-S wrote:

> Recently I've taken to holding everything in my held mail folder
> except that which is whitelisted.

For people who don't get wanted mail from non-whitelisteds, that is an
excellent strategy for 'complete' or total spam control.

But.....

> It dawned on me that seepage
> through SC was one of the largest sources of spam in my inbox.

I presume that 'SC' in this context means that you are a spamcop mail
subscriber, so these comments might be best in the ng spamcop.mail.  I'm
not a SC mail subscriber, but I've read about configuring the SC mail
filters in the forum and elsewhere, and how 'tight' your SC filters are
is completely up to the individual subscriber configurer.  That is, if
you were leaking a lot of spam, you weren't configured very tightly.

> That
> has now ceased.

If you are only allowing whitelisteds, then you /are/ now configured
very tightly.  For many many people, that would require digging some
wanted mail out of their held spam.  Some people find that to be a bad
job, depending upon the volume of spam.

Most people would prefer to configure tight spamfilter rules *and*
whitelist their friends.  Under that scenario, they would be able to
receive in the Inbox unknown but wanted mail which didn't have spammish
characteristics, while never filtering their known correspondents.

IMO that is a better configuration than Inboxing whitelisteds only.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin