[103694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spam wanted :)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Apr 10 19:33:45 2008
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:24:09 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
CC: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87y77lirz9.fsf@obelix.mork.no>
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>>> this would be a straight sample, before filtering, ip address
>>> blocking, etc.
>> i realize this is difficult, as all of us go through much effort to
>> reject this stuff as early as possible. but it will be a sample
>> unbiased by your filtering techniques.
> How do you classify email as spam without adding bias?
reasonable question. i suspect you pull out the 0.5% of the inbound you
actually wanted and consider the bias small. as the dnsbls alone block
way over 90% of the inbound here, i would not classify that as small.
randy
