Re: Too many false positives...goodbye, razor

> inadequate job of compensating for them.  I'm seeing far too many
> false positives, including Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Day", eBay
> outbid notification, and E*TRADE dividend notices...all of which are
> important personal messages or opt-in mailing lists.  False positives

The key is, are they double opt-in?  I get several messages
that I dutifully report as spam because someone has decided
that they want to fake an address at my domain, and it delivers.

If it's not double opt-in, it is open to abuse, and the information
can be considered spam.  The obvious example is the NYTimes newsletter.

Someone registered with nytimes with the username of:

ndwvbocjykjmt

And then they start sending me their newsletter every day.  

That is, IMNSHO spam.

There are others that are similar.  I report them, you disagree,
you revoke them.

I'm also on the otherside with the email from rootsweb.com, that
people report as spam.  I simply revoke, and we let the system
work.  I suspect my razor rating is sufficiently high that
I might cause something you consider to be a false positive, and
that is regrettable.

-Jot
-- 
Jot Powers      <razor@xxxxxxxx>                http://www.bofh.com/spam/
"I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" 
        -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan


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