I agree. But then I would, seeing as I do it for a living! On Wed, October 5, 2005 9:11 pm, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote: >> >> the real problem IMHO is ISP's filtering mail instead of passing it on. >> It is CPU intensive, you only have to look at the RECEIVED headers of >> some messages to see how long they spend in spamfilter.$ISP.com >> >> Make the end user filter their own spam, at least then the processing is >> distributed, ie my cpu filters my mail rather than forcing ot through a >> bottleneck at $ISP. > > Holy wars here. > I will define the word spam to include the virus ridden emails which have > the 50K attachments. > > If the isp chooses to provide an additional service, and charge for it, > then all power to them. We do live in a free world. > > Further, the ISP is in a good position to determine the spam from the non > spam - they have access to a large body of email. It depends... you can train your filter on the findings of other prople as well. The use of rbls like ordb ans spamhaus will dramatically lower your spam levels, and that's without blowing the company's trumpet with other services on offer (: > > ===== > > Personally, I prefer the isp to filter for spam. If I am on a low > bandwidth connection, and the first act on logging in is to download > megabytes of spam, I will be "unhappy". > > Much better for the isp to filter out "most" of the spam first. Then, my > dial in time is not consumed by downloading spam. I am in favour of the isp being pretty draconian in its filtering, but then providing you access to your quarantined spam so you can check it's all unwanted. To some extent you can do this yourself with imap services if available. > > Derek. > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. Any fool can write code that > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. a computer can understand. > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good programmers write code > ph +64 3 365 6485 that humans can understand. > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ Martin Fowler > >
$0.02, Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
