3/17/2023 0 Comments Spamsieve in the cloud![]() I had a ton of legitimate mailing list subscriptions, most of which I never read. I was getting something done! It was taking the place of actual productive work.Īnd it went beyond even that. The act of clearing the mail gave me a mini dopamine rush. I still had to go and manually review and flag/delete over a hundred mails a day just to make email usable.Īnd it went beyond that. ![]() Let’s be generous and say that Apple Mail caught 3/4 of them. Sure, there were some false positives, mostly automated mails from systems I use, but I figure over the course of a month I’ll have those all whitelisted.Īccording to SpamSieve’s statistics, I get around 444 spam messages a day. It took 3 days for another spam message to show up in my inbox. Then I saw a post by Brent Simmons about how he switched to SpamSieve. (Or when I was out and about, I frantically deleted spam every hour or so before they piled up too much, even though I knew that probably hurt the filter’s training, but seriously, things got crazy if I didn’t keep on top of them.)Ĭlearing spam had almost become my job, but I didn’t really realize it, because it was just this thing I did, you know? And I’m a Mac guy, and there’s supposed to be a junk mail filter in the mail app, which I can see caught some of the mails, but a lot got through, and I dutifully marked each one as spam to help train the filter. I turned on Spam Assassin at my web host a while ago, which helped a bit. (I’m searching my brain for a movie reference that fits but all I can come up with is Michael Corleone saying “just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in” but why would I ever think I was out of a spam list?) It’s gotten on just about every list you can imagine, and by “every list” I mean every fricking spammer database there is, and there’s no getting off of those. ![]() Here’s the thing: I’ve had my primary email address for over 13 years now. ![]() Sure, I’ve been writing elsewhere, but mostly, I’ve been busy. Hey, wanna know why I haven’t been posting for the past two years? ![]()
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