I agree, and they'll probably market that as an Exchange addon in a year or
two.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] They should try declude :)


> That was my first thought as well, but I realized it was biased.  Having a
> "dedicated department" could mean both manual review, and developers
> creating rules to eliminate spam.  I can't imagine a software company not
> doing some of that.
>
> I think there are people on this list who have probably gotten to the
99.9+%
> level with the help of Declude, Message Sniffer, Spam Assassin, and the
> members of this list.  I'm betting Microsoft is coming up with similar
> technologies and is using their accounts as a testing ground.  There would
> still be a manual review process to filter out the email that needs or
> deserves a response, as with any high-level exec, but I can't imagine that
> they don't have some sort of rules processing engine behind the bulk of
the
> process.
>
> Darin.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 8:57 AM
> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] They should try declude :)
>
>
>
> >Well, the question is what are they using? And is it available to "Joe
> >User"?
>
> Ah, they at least give a hint as to what they are using:
>
> "But being one of the top people at the world's top software company has
> its perks. Ballmer said only about 10 junk e-mails make it through to his
> inbox each day because of Microsoft's anti-spam technology."
>
> Given that Ballmer presumably receives in the order of 100,000s of spams a
> day, that means a 99.99+% spam capture ratio.  That pretty much means that
> he is using the same Microsoft anti-spam technology as Bill
> Gates:  "practically an entire department at the company he founded is
> dedicated to ensuring that nothing unwanted gets into his inbox."
>
> So Microsoft's anti-spam technology is about as low-tech as it can
> get.  It's a bunch of people that go through millions of E-mails each day.
>
>                                                     -Scott
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