On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:26:16 +1300 Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm all in favour of bashing ISP's, but.... > > Wesley said: > > > > What am I paying for? Where's my money going? > > > > Well in this case clearly it's partly funding a spam filter. As well as > this newsletter, it sounds like you had quite bit of *actual* spam > stopped, something you'd have had to do yourself otherwise. > > In the real world all current spamfilters will miss some spam, and all > will have the occasional 'false positive' > > - steve > (...who runs a couple of dozen spamassassin sites - and a couple of > MailMarshal ones on W) > > ========================================================= > > > This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc > Cube Server > Maybe you need to try a new concept - look for mailwasher on sourceforge. OK, I run the project, but personally (honest!), I got my first false positive ( a standard letter from vmware ) a couple of weeks ago, and my stats say that it's quarantined 17,175 spams from 79,303 mails, over about 12 months. I never get more that 10 spams a month. Steve
