On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
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.
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.
(various snippage)
Just make it an option. My email host does exactly that, and it's
enabled by default. Because their filter was rubbish (too many false
positives) I disabled it. The filter in my mail client is excellent
and even if it does screw up, I get to check through the junk before
deleting it.
The only time I've received megabytes of spam was when I was not only
on dialup (33k), but also happened to be paying for international
traffic. I was therefore not pleased when some spammer sent me a
large ad as an image file, 3 or 4 times over.
- Dave
