On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:46:24AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > "Right" is when you have successfully blocked 100% of the spam and NONE > of the legitimate e-mail. There is currently no way to block all the > spam and only the spam. > > Every ISP is in the position of trying to get to the "right" answer as > I've defined it. You all make trade-offs, as do I in managing our > corporate e-mail servers and even my home network. Those tradeoffs are > made based on the customer base you're serving. As your attempts to > block spam get more severe, the odds of blocking legitimate e-mail go > up. How important it is to you to not block legitimate e-mail is part > of the tradeoffs. > > Rodolfo has summed it up well and I think it's time to drop it. Ed and Rodolfo - two people on the same mailing list speaking with wisdom and savvy about a controversial topic. Gotta be a first. I second Ed's notion. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. jkinz@xxxxxxxx copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often.
