Mail filters (was Re: affective pronouns)

Christophe Grandsire writes:
 > En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
 >
 > >
 > > Lots of companies don't want to pay the resource costs of incoming
 > > pornospam.
 > >
 >
 > But that's something else! You can filter spam with other means than a dirty-
 > word filter (at my work for instance, there is a very efficient spam filter on
 > place - so efficient that none of us has ever received spam since it's
 > installed -, and yet it doesn't filter dirty words - neither in English nor in
 > Dutch :))) -). Using such a tool looks to me like cutting a foot to cure an
 > ingrown nail, a rather exaggerated measure. But after all it doesn't surprise
 > me that much when I see that American programs bip dirty words...
 >

Incidentally, Christophe, I have a mail filter on my machine here, and
it blocked your mail asking for submissions for the journal.  Not a
real problem in my case, as I wouldn't have had anything to submit...
I should really work out how to whitelist you so it can't happen
again.

Anyway, these are the reasons it gave...


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