On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dave Crocker wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
Most users prefer to delegate this job. It's 10x more efficient
to do so.
Not to quibble, but I would have guessed several orders of magnitude
greater. Probably more. Also, for most of the world's 1+ billion users,
I'd have added "effective" to "efficient"...
I was thinking in terms of the cost of accepting, storing, and retrieving
the user's email before passing it to the MUA filter and only then
discovering that 90% of it is spam, as opposed to rejecting it at SMTP
time.
Tony.
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