Dan mentioned: >If your company needs to stoop to something this unethical
Just for the record, this is a sales person for a company that I host and maintain a website for. This is not "my company"... but they overall a very ethical company and currently fast growing. Also, this was just one of their employees. Frankly, prior to this thread, I'd have not thought of an occasional hand-typed though unsolicited commercial e-mail as not that big of a deal... boy, was I ever wrong!! Still, I do wonder if asking Spam Assassin mail administrators about a marginal case of spam is like asking a fire marshal about lighting fireworks or asking a traffic cop about going over the speed limit by 5 mph? Also, as Greg Allen mentioned in another post on this thread, being too zealous can lead to FPs if you aren't extra careful. In fact, I recently tested one of the most popular and highly rated client-side software programs for spam filtering e-mail in outlook. It too plays the "catch every spam" game and I found the FP rate to be alarmingly high. --Rob McEwen
