Anonymous email users

Thomas Passin list1 at tompassin.net
Mon Jun 24 13:17:13 EDT 2024


On 6/24/2024 5:51 AM, Barry Scott via Python-list wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 23 Jun 2024, at 06:58, Sebastian Wells via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> The spammers won the spam wars, so even if you have someone's real
>> e-mail address, that's no guarantee that you can contact them. You
>> certainly wouldn't be able to contact me at my real e-mail address,
>> unless you also had my phone number, so you could call me and tell
>> me that you sent me an e-mail, and what the subject line was so I
>> can find it. I don't even open my e-mail inbox unless there's a
>> specific message I'm expecting to find there right now.
> 
> My email address is well known and yes I get spam emails.
> 
> I use the wonderful python based spambayes software to detect spam and
> file into a Junk folder. It works for 99.9% of the emails I get.

I use the Thunderbird mail client and I just use its built in spam 
detector.  I don't know how it works but it's pretty darn good.  Very 
few false positives or false negatives.  And it learns each time I 
classify a message as "Junk", in case it missed one.

> I am subscribed to a lot of mailing lists. I just checked and I am getting ~3,200
> emails a month of which less than 200 are spam.
> 
> A few years ago the spam count was greater than a 1,000 a month.
> 
> I have been using spambayes for a very long time, 20 years I guess at this
> point and bayesian categorisation has stood the test of time for me.
> 
> For me the spammers have not won, I have the tech to keep ahead of them.
> 
> Barry
> 



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