>>>> If you're *not* receiving all your spam and evaluating for
>>>> false positives on a regular basis, then you're losing some
>>>> percentage of legitimate messages.

>>> This is obviously your personal opinion since, as a blanket
>>> statement, it is false.

>> Sorry, so which solution is it that doesn't require you to download
>> every message from the server, but absolutely guarantees against
>> false positives?

> BrightMail spam filter run by the ISP.

I'm presuming that you're basing this accuracy on statistics provided by 
Symantec themselves as you don't actually get to see what is rejected. I 
suppose we could all judge the danger of smoking on research carried out by 
British American Tobacco. 

I'm sure BrightMail is an excellent spam filter, but no company has as yet 
claimed 100% accuracy. Brightmail "claim" 99.9999% - if your ISP handles 
10,000,000 emails a day then it's likely 10 of its customers register a false 
positive. That's enough for me to keep checking - there's a pretty slim chance 
of my Hard Disk losing data in the first three years according to the 
manufacturer, but I'm still going to make backups.

Simon Troup
Digital Music Art

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