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Re: SORBS Contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Pooser)
Thu Aug 10 01:33:41 2006

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:32:16 -0700
From: Dave Pooser <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <yu9k65h9p79.fsf@aoc.nrao.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> Sorry I wasn't very clear.  The results in the hotmail example were
> where the users said it wasn't spam but hotmail insisted it was.  It
> is possible for a user to indentify non-spam as spam.  But if a user
> says it isn't spam then it isn't no matter how much it might look like
> it might be. 

Phishing spam leaps immediately to mind as a counterexample; the fact that
the user mistakes it for legit mail is exactly the problem.
-- 
Dave Pooser, ACSA
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media  http://www.alfordmedia.com



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