spammers evolve and yet spamassassin has survived
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Replying to @whitequark @munin
now I can't cite any case studies but from my own antispam experience and from watching gmail and other large providers
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I very much doubt spamassassin would help them
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Replying to @allgebrah @munin
I run nothing except spamassassin in a default config and I leave my email everywhere. I get lots of spam... all filtered
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Now you may claim this is atypical but I would like to hear why, for one
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Replying to @whitequark
nobody is trying to poke holes in your system specifically, actively extracting its filter rules
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Replying to @allgebrah @whitequark
also note that my experience is from web antispam, not mail antispam
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Replying to @allgebrah @whitequark
"filter rules" in a loose sense - this is when I wish this was IRC and I wouldn't feel like I needed to save chars
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Replying to @allgebrah @whitequark
also you can blackhole email effectively and not give spammers an information backchannel, but anything gmail-scale has leaks
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and this is only email; meanwhile website users expect low response times and websites leak information like buckets
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