[geeks] New Spam Disclaimer

Amy scoobydoo at ohno.mrbill.net
Sun Jun 16 12:17:13 CDT 2002


On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:
> a. ISPs start enabling spamassassin (or equivelent) by default.
> 	When AOL does this, it initiates an "arms race" obviously,
> 	with spammers testing their attacks on spamassassin, but
> 	nevertheless, the filters will win.

The only problem with spamassassin that I've seen is that while yes, it
does block 99% of spam, it also occasionally gets 2% of valid email
that goes through. So it can't be blocked at the ISP level.

--a



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