Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: eli-list, 'Marc Perkel' CC: 'Exim-users' Subject: RE: [exim] Testing what ports are open on the sending host.
--On March 6, 2005 23:13:49 -0500 Eli <eli-list@???> wrote:
> Marc wrote:
>> That's why my filter is so damn accurate.
>
> Some of us have been trying to point out to you that your filter will be
> nothing of the sort. I'd really like to see how you figure it will be
> accurate at all. Try it - tell us of your findings. I wager a virtual $1
> that it hinders you more than it helps (based on the assumption that you
> take in email from a wide variety of sources from the Internet).
>
> Eli.
Eli, the term "my filter" clearly didn't refer to the proposal to check
open ports on the sending host. It referred to his current spam filter. If
you start out assuming that you are corresponding with an intelligent
person, then ambiguities like this resolve themselves differently.
There's a clue in the grammar here. Eli said "my filter *is*", and you said
"your filter *will be* nothing of the sort". So, he's talking about
something that he's implemented, and you're talking about something that
he's proposing.
