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Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream

  • From: Lamar Owen
  • Date: Wed Sep 17 17:28:37 2008

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 16:53:35 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> > Some people would really like email to be as reliable as possible, even
> > if that means they have to wade through a lot of spam.
>
> By what twisted logic can a system where desired email is found when "
> they have to wade through a lot of spam"?

When our spam rate here is 90% (27,000 or more spam per week for 3,000 good 
messages) 'wading through spam' translates to 'finding real messages is like 
finding a needle in a pr0n haystack'.

It's amazing how many false positives and annoyances I get with greylisting, 
though.