On Tue 11 Oct 2005 15:21:33 NZDT +1300, yuri wrote: > > > <Hat type="faithful TelstraClear employee"> > > > Paradise and clear.net don't even charge for this service -- and > > > customers can turn it on or off on a per mailboc basis. > > > It was introduced due to customer demand.
Being a bit more cynical, I don't buy that "customer demand". Keeping a gazillion copies of the latest Redmond infection costs bandwidth, storage space, more bandwith while everyone downloads it, and exacerbates the problem 1000-fold as soon as the microsofties get in on their act of becoming part of the deluge. Much cheaper for the ISP to take the rubbish to the dump straight away. At first they tried to charge for this, but then decided not to. My guess is that the uptake of the chargable service was disappointing, and that it was still cheaper for them to forego that income and start dumping instead of having to organise the rubbish. I don't think the user configuration options are all that hot either. At least one can turn the spam + virus filters on and off now (which wasn't possible at first). One can't configure for how long the rubbish is held, one can only inspect it with a pesky slow web interface, the size of the rubbish heap counts against the mailbox quota, but it's impossible to find out the size of the problem. No sensitivity settings either. Except for fast access to the rubbish heap (via IMAP, which costs money), gmx.net offers all that for free. > > lookalikes. Can I do anything to train the Paradise filter or should I > > implement one of my own? Implement your own on top of your ISP. It's amazing how much goes straight through Paradise, but gets stuck in SA. Dito for the university, which claims to have a first-class megabucks commercial rubbish sorter. Not sure how they arrive at that claim, counting the nonsense which gets through to me, of which 3/4 scores so phenomenally high in SA, it's almost funny. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
