OK, listen up, spammers: even if my mother (whose email I'm going through) were still alive, she wouldn't have wanted a Megadik.
But the fact that I'm having to go through my spam folder to make sure that I haven't missed something, says a lot about client-side spam filtering.
First of all, that I was unable to do this in France, because I didn't have the bandwidth to download all of the mail before evaluating it.
Secondly, Bayesian spam filtering works by statistics - if something happens that is unusual, it assumes it's spam. And normally it works pretty well. Unfortunately, people emailing you out of the blue about uncommon subjects also happens when a close relative dies, and it's exactly at this point that you don't want to have any email accidentally classified as spam. So if you have a death in the family, in this day and age, one of the first things that I recommend you do is dial down the aggressiveness of your spam filter.
And before that? Find out the email addresses of all your close relatives' close friends and relatives, and add them to your spam filter, and do this now, so when the day comes that you're getting email from all sorts of people that you don't know that well, your computer knows that they're not trying to sell you Viagra or penny stocks.
