If it continues to prove effective, I sure hope someone comes out with something an order of magnitude (or more) cheaper. $1K for SPAM blocking is beyond the reach of most email users, but SOMETHING for sure is needed.
Coincidentally, I was in correspondence just this morning with the host of a couple of my domains asking what had happened to their server level SPAM blocking, which has been extremely effective since implemented about 8 months ago, with (AFAIK) almost no false positives. Here is a part of his reply: "Unfortunately it is not us who stopped using spam blacklists, but rather spammers who are getting smarter by the day. Most recent spam is sent from compromised residential internet connections and as soon as that IP is blacklisted the spammers simply find another computer to use. Therefore, the only way to effectively combat spam is going to be actual message filtering which would require a very complex and resource intensive system. As much as I wanted to avoid setting up a content filter it appears that we have no other choice. We have created such a system and are in the process of deploying it. It is active on some servers, just not yet on the one you're on. We are hoping to have it available everywhere by the end of the weekend." IVO the above, I wonder how DEEP SIX will handle the use of compromised residential machines to generate SPAM? I don't expect an answer to that; just wondering if they have really come up with "a better mousetrap." In the last couple of weeks, I went from 3-5% SPAM to better than 85%. If I notice any significant reduction will drop another line on the subject... - Bill Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Davidson Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:27 To: [email protected] Subject: [WINHOME] Deep Six DS200 AntiSpam Hardware For those that don't get Brain Livingston's Windows Secrets Newsletter (https://windowssecrets.com) he had a review of this hardware which is a one-time purchase of $1,000 for a very small & silent (no moving parts) box that spam-checks inbound mail before it gets to your mail server (or in our case, GFI Mail Essentials to do further spam detection)... -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
