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Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the human-element dept.

Henn writes "The BBC is carrying a story about computers that track how much attention you are paying and the "worth" of individual messages. Based on these criterion, it adjusts how intrusive to make the alerts. The story is fairly short, however you can find more depth over here." Interesting ideas, but for me it's becomming less about time- my filters catch 80% of my spam, meaning it only takes me 10-20 minutes to deal with it, and more about bandwidth. At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work. Yay spam!

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  1. I'm really sorry ... by Mikey-San · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm really sorry, but I have to be the grammar dork this morning:

    "Based on these criterion [...]"?

    This is incorrect.

    "Based on these criteria [...]"?

    This is correct.

    I mean, you wouldn't say, "Based on these fact," would you? ;-)

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    Mikey-San
    Burninating karma at the speed of TROGDOR!

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  2. Downloading megs of spam... by Randolpho · · Score: 4, Informative
    At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work.
    Try using IMAP rather than POP, or, better yet, get email with a webmail service. Seriously, it's the best option on a modem with tons of spam.
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  3. Yahoo already does this... by j0hnfr0g · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...with their online email. They pay attention to how much you pay attention to different types of email and then tries to put most of the spam in a "Bulk Mail" folder.

    John

    1. Re:Yahoo already does this... by Randolpho · · Score: 5, Informative

      I love my yahoo account. It's the only address I give out publicly, and the bulk folder works wonders. Grabs easily 99% of all my spam. Unfortunately, that 1% is still a problem -- when you get hundreds of s-mails a day, that 1% becomes a largish number -- but I diligently report it to the yahoo spam-cops. :)

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      "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
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