Our networks are clogged with spam traffic.
Our servers are overloaded by spam filtering
Spam is increasing exponentially.
Spammers change strategy constantly, what works today, will not work
tomorrow
What is spam is purely subjective.
Commerce on the net is good not bad. We are throwing out the baby with
the bath water.
Perhaps we can filter it well, I have won my war against spam at least
temporary, but here is a limit on how much we can filter. I have been
forced to block over 4 million IP addresses since I cannot handle the load.
Jim
Peter Kay wrote:
I've been a part of this list for some time now, in mostly lurking
fashion. My question to the group is, if you read all the anti-spam
vendors (me included), they all claim high-9 catch rates and near-zero
false positives. If this is the case, why are we still here trying to
eliminate spam when one would think that, if the claims are true, the
spam problem has been solved? I can only think of one of three reasons:
1. The vendor claims are false. In the real world, you still get lots
of undesireable email.
2. The vendor claims are true, but we're a bunch of perfectionists
searching for infinite resolution of Pi.
3. The filtering paradigm is a non-solution due to increased use of
recipient resources (bandwith, storage, processing, end-user time, etc)
I'm jaded here because I just don't get any spam at all. To me, this
group is firmly stuck in #2. But I'd love to hear everyone's
feedback/experience on "Why are we still here?"
Peter Kay
Titan Key Software
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