"Patrick Bihan-Faou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem with spam is that there is no reliable way to split spam from
> legitimate mail.
Bingo!
> If you try to filter-out spam, you will always end-up filtering out
> proper mail as well.
Bingo!
> The key is to try to keep track as much as possible of what is accepted
> and what is rejected.
Why? To satisfy your curiosity? Or do you then track down all senders of
legitimate email, and tell them what happened?
> ...the tolerable lost email / killed spam ratio is somewhat a personal
> decision...
The tolerable ratio is zero. If you are an ISP and think differently, then
your customers should abandon you. They might even have grounds to sue
you. (``The computer threw your job offer away. Sorry.'') They probably
won't, because they don't understand. (``Oh. Those darn computers!'')
Len.
--
E-mail encryption is a perfect application where cascades are reasonable.
Pretty much no one cares if they have to wait 10 milliseconds or 50
milliseconds for the encryption to occur.
-- Bruce Schneier
