The Fantastic 4 GL - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 13

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Kurt: Okay. Here this is the question. I am using Mozilla Mail as my mail client on XP and I have got PC-cillin. And I love the spam blocking that comes right with Mozilla Mail, I love it. And I don*t apparently have any problems but seriously I am wondering am I fooling myself? I want to hear your opinion about my combination Mozilla Mail, PC-cillin.

David Lawrence: Well here*s my question for you.

Kurt: You know if I am doing the right thing?

David Lawrence: Okay the very simple question is how often are you stung with false positives?

Kurt: If I get a hundred mails a day I guess I might get one a week.

David Lawrence: What do you mean?

Kurt: You mean a false positive like mail that I want that gets called spam right?

David Lawrence: Correct absolutely correct so one a week.

Kurt: One a week.

David Lawrence: Alright.

Kurt: Out of a 100 E-mails a day.

David Lawrence: Is that acceptable to you?

Kurt: Yeah.

David Lawrence: Then you are doing fine.

Kurt: Okay.

David Lawrence: Now understand something.

Kurt: Yeah.

David Lawrence: The only way you could have answered that question is if you are going through every piece of spam you have got to check for a false positive, am I right?

Kurt: Yes.

David Lawrence: Okay. So then the question is and this is just a logic question more than anything else. What time are you saving doing spam filtering if you are going through all of them anyway?

Kurt: Well I go through pretty damn quick you know.

David Lawrence: Yeah right. I understand.

Kurt: I just sort by the sender and I can go quick.

David Lawrence: Sure.

Kurt: You know and I--.

David Lawrence: If you can do the same thing--

Kurt: I am saying it pretty confidently.

David Lawrence: You can do the same thing with your Inbox. You know you can sort by sender. I am not saying you shouldn*t do what you are doing. If you are happy doing what you are doing. First of all how we use our machines has everything to do with whether or not we think we are being efficient.

Kurt: Right.

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