Exactly. But whatever you do don't let it get wet.
Re:Black-lists, white-lists, they both are flawed
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A flawed list might boast that only 1% of the mails that they block are legitimate.... Lets say poor joe user gets 2 real messages for every 100 spam. The 1 percent fail rate means that the spam cop deleted half of Joe's legitimate mail. (1 percent is half of 2 percent).
Right, and if poor old Joe only got one legit message in a hundred, then the service would block ALL his legit mail. Or your math could be wrong. My money is on the latter.
If a service has a 1-in-100 false positive rate, then it will incorrectly block one in one hundred legit messages, regardless of the spam/legit ratio. If poor old Joe is getting about 50 spams for each legit email, then he's probably missing more legit email than that simply because he makes mistakes whilst wading through all the cruft. Filters don't have to be perfect; they just have to be better than not filtering.
There was at one stage an attempt to bring in a "blank tape levy" scheme in Australia, under which private taping of recorded music would have been made legal, with copyright owners receiving compensation through a small additional charge on blank tapes.
Curious; I thought that legislation was actually in place, but that it didn't grant the right to make copies. I'm probably mistaken on that account. But can you tell me why we have the two kinds of CD-R: the regular variety, and the "for audio use" variety, with technological locks on the consumer audio-only CD-burners such that they will only accept the more expensive audio-only disks? Isn't this a case of a levy on the discs to cover supposed copyright infringment? This pisses me off, personally, since I use one such domestic audio-only CD-burner for recording live presentations (for the presenter, who owns the copyright on the presentation). I've heard I can "apply for a refund", to which I say, "well, thanks a frickin million for giving me a tedious, red-tape-ridden method of reclaiming what you should never have taken from me in the first place."
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Exactly. But whatever you do don't let it get wet.
Right, and if poor old Joe only got one legit message in a hundred, then the service would block ALL his legit mail. Or your math could be wrong. My money is on the latter.
If a service has a 1-in-100 false positive rate, then it will incorrectly block one in one hundred legit messages, regardless of the spam/legit ratio. If poor old Joe is getting about 50 spams for each legit email, then he's probably missing more legit email than that simply because he makes mistakes whilst wading through all the cruft. Filters don't have to be perfect; they just have to be better than not filtering.
Curious; I thought that legislation was actually in place, but that it didn't grant the right to make copies. I'm probably mistaken on that account. But can you tell me why we have the two kinds of CD-R: the regular variety, and the "for audio use" variety, with technological locks on the consumer audio-only CD-burners such that they will only accept the more expensive audio-only disks? Isn't this a case of a levy on the discs to cover supposed copyright infringment? This pisses me off, personally, since I use one such domestic audio-only CD-burner for recording live presentations (for the presenter, who owns the copyright on the presentation). I've heard I can "apply for a refund", to which I say, "well, thanks a frickin million for giving me a tedious, red-tape-ridden method of reclaiming what you should never have taken from me in the first place."