At 9:27 AM -0600 12/13/08, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Ken wrote: > >> The Mac really can't do much about SPAM, > >My SPAM filter in Mail.app is about 99.9% efficient. I wait until the >SPAM box is full to several hundred before scanning and deleting. If >you mark the wrong ones as "not spam" it remembers and learns. >Likewise, if one slips through, if you mark it as SPAM rather than >deleting it, you'll never deal with that variety again. The problem is >there are infinite varieties, like mutating viruses, and a few always >seem to slip by. I'm more bothered when legitimate email is filtered >out, but thankfully that is rare for me. >
I know some may disagree with me, but.. Up until last January we were hosting all our own email servers (150 or so domain names, mostly below 10 mail accounts each). The Storm Worm botnet (250,000 compromised PCs last year at this time) beat the tar out of them - our fastest Macs couldn't say "go away" fast enough and were essentially suffering from distributed denial of service (DDOS), crashing multiple times a day. We were paralized. We moved everything over to Gmail (still using the same domain names and user addresses. Under 100 accounts is free for the basic service). It's been great. They have far more computational firepower to throw against the spam problem than our little server farm ever could muster. My collection of 15 or so addresses currently see something like 4 spams a day slip through vs 24,000 to 40,000 per month that get auto filtered into my Gmail spam folder. My previous in house anti-spam servers were only catching about half to two thirds of that, so I was still seeing 300 spam a day sneak past by the time we finally completed the move. After the first week or two of "training" the spam filter, I stopped seeing any real mail in there and after about 2 months I stopped bothering to wade through it to see if any real mail is in there. It's just not worth the effort. My clients still mostly download their mail to their computer's mail program, though many also take advantage of webmail. I recommend they consider it as an offsite backup in the event their local hard drive fries. We've already saved someone's bacon that way at least once. I've got several other options open in the event Gmail gets stupid or expensive, but for now I'm real happy with it. As always, your milage may vary. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
