It was going to happen eventually, and for the last while it has been. What I mean is that my personal email that I keep closely hidden from the interweb has starting getting spam. Sure Thunderbird has Baysian spam filters, but there seems to be some problems with the way the filters are trained such that the “bleeding edge” of spam-filter-avoidance keywords are not given a higher weight (please use ARMA). I guess it doesn’t help that I have several years of junk mail that is used to train the filters inaccurately.
Anyways, rather than play around with statistics, or resort to using Gmail, I’ve decided to convert my primary email into a whitelist. If you send me mail and you’re not on in my address book, then it’ll end up in my junk mail and I’ll probably miss it. But what about all those emails from sites that you have to give an email for? Well that’s the benefit of having your own domain, you just use a catch-all for them.
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