Yup.. and it sucks.. I get a 10 minute delay, and my phone starts ringing
off the hook. I've had to beef up our spamassassin engines at least 3 times
in the past 18 months to handle the load.. and now getting these stupid
text only 3 or 4 line emails that hard very difficult to block.. Greylisting
just isn't a option that I'm willing to do if it's simply refusing to take
delivery of the message on the first go around..
Thanks, Billy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Rhett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Logan Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: How to filter these spam messages
Logan Shaw wrote:
I guess the problem with being an ISP is that there would be
other ISPs who would be willing to not try to adjust their
expectations and instead promise them super-speedy e-mail
delivery in all cases. The fact that it isn't possible to
deliver on that promise might not matter if they still manage
to take away your customers. :-)
Exactly so. At an ISP I did some work for, I used to argue this until
people very reasonably pointed out that yahoo mail got delivered faster,
and it was free.
Yahoo averages ~2 minutes for mail delivery. That sets the bar for anyone
who is trying to sell their mail services.
--
Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
