I gave up years ago reporting spam in pending files after coming to the conclusion that it doesn't work. If I recall at one time staff admitted that this tool was broken, I think they said it was fixed, but. . . Joan On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:50 AM, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > Ian Marr wrote: >> My last comment on the subject (since a very small minority are getting very >> nasty in private mails). >> >> If everyone used the discard option, how would we ever get the spam filters >> trained so that the volume can be reduced even before it hits our pending? > > IME, reporting spam to the filter only increases the amount > of it. > > As for training the filters? From the personal > record-keeping I did, it looked as if what they were being > trained to do was to reproduce themselves daily. Each time > I reported a single spam, I got 2 the next day; if I > reported 2, I reaped 4; if I reported 74, I got 148 ... this > is counter-productive and an utter waste of time and > resources. There is a limit to altruism, after all. > > Moreover, the discussion has branched like the Nile delta. > One main branch is on about the Pending Requests; one main > branch is looking out for the [listname]-admin@ mail. and > each has divided into groups who are talking about the other > branch with examples from the other branch. > > Cheryl >