From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 16:22:26 MDT
Speaking of filtering, I've had two Bayesian filter apps installed (not at
the same time) and neither one seems to see any email, spam or
otherwise. They can't even tell if email is being checked it seems. I'm
back to hand filtering as a result.
James...
>Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>Subject: Re: Meta: delays in message posting
>On Fri, 30 May 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:
> > Anyone know the cause of the lags?
>My working hypothesis is that due to huge increases in SPAM
>volume the email receiving agents are starting to get
>bogged down. There have been a number of comments on /.
>recently about SPAM increases, laws to deal with it
>(which will be of limited effectiveness unless there is
>international action), and people using Bayesian filtering
>(as well as other methods) to deal with the problem.
>But the filtering consumes CPU time and presumably
>makes the response time of the machines even slower
>if they happen to be hosting the email receiving
>agents as well.
>I save the email that spambouncer filters for me (since
>in WA state we have an anti-SPAM law and I want to sue
>these people if I ever have any free time) and I've
>noticed the volume getting so large that I have had
>to increase my frequency of compressing and archiving
>the crap.
>Robert
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