Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:48:39PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:53:09PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> >> Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> > John Ferlito wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> In my opinion SPF pretty much protects you from one thing, joe-job
>
> [snip]
>
>> Sure. I make no claim that it is impossible, simply that it is hard and
>> costly. You don't happen to know what their internal cost for that
>> project was, do you?
>
> 1 person, left over equipment, maybe done over 2 weeks as it was done
> in his spare time. Motivation sick and tired of the windows machines
> running out of resources scanning for virus etc... on spam mail.
>
> This machine was just a smtp gateway, that used spamassassin
>
>> (I would bet at least a couple of full time people for a couple of
>> weeks, plus planning and management overheads.)
Well, I stand corrected. I am kind of amazed that a large ISP,
especially one the scale of Telstra or Optus, would approach the project
that way -- but, hey, I guess not everywhere operates like the parts I
have dealt with in my time.
Regards,
Daniel
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